Comments on: And that’s the bottom line, ’cause Lee Terry said so http://nealo.com/2010/02/17/and-thats-the-bottom-line/ a collection of editorial cartoons by neal obermeyer Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 By: A different Kevin http://nealo.com/2010/02/17/and-thats-the-bottom-line/comment-page-1/#comment-186562 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:03:23 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=2918#comment-186562 Talk of the Nation had an incredibly interesting and troubling look at who is being impacted most by the current recession.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103171928

Labor Underutilization Problems of U.S. Workers Across Household Income Groups at the End of the Great Recession: A Truly Great Depression Among the Nation’s Low Income Workers Amidst Full Employment Among the Most Affluent wrote:
The unemployment rates of workers in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2009 varied extremely widely across the ten household income deciles.8 Workers in the lowest income decile faced a Great Depression type unemployment rate of nearly 31% while those in the second lowest income decile had an unemployment rate slightly below 20% (Table 3 and Chart 2). Unemployment rates fell steadily and steeply across the ten income deciles. Workers in the top two deciles of the income distribution faced unemployment rates of only 4.0 and 3.2 percent respectively, the equivalent of full employment. The relative size of the gap in unemployment rates between workers in the bottom and top income deciles was close to ten to one. Clearly, these two groups of workers occupy radically different types of labor markets in the U.S.

Source: http://www.clms.neu.edu/publication/documents/Labor_Underutilization_Problems_of_U.pdf

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By: kevin http://nealo.com/2010/02/17/and-thats-the-bottom-line/comment-page-1/#comment-186171 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:19:47 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=2918#comment-186171 I loved the BALLS he had posting that. I expected at LEAST a WSJ op-ed, but no, it was a story about Rep. Big Boy.

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By: Matthew http://nealo.com/2010/02/17/and-thats-the-bottom-line/comment-page-1/#comment-186163 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:59:16 +0000 http://nealo.com/?p=2918#comment-186163 http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/02/why_are_americans_so_mad_about_the_stimulus.php

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