So these are people that are discouraged workers, that can't quite get the money they need or the hours they need?
The Joint Economic Committee will come to order.
Does that tend to be an indicator that there is some glimmer of hope here?
Let us all remember that there are real people behind these statistics.
That is what led us in Congress to extend unemployment benefits, something that we always did in the past.
We need to get our act together here in terms of these financial regulations.
we're going to be working on health care reform this year, and if we're able to bring some costs down and make it more a...
You can't tell someone who has lost their job 'Hey, we've seen some good increases in consumer confidence.' That's not g...
I would think these numbers are important. People have to realize across the country that it's not just one person messi...
I know we discussed last year the health care effect here and the burden on workers of the cost of health care in this c...
And that trend is similar to the regular unemployment rate?
How many jobs have been lost since December 2007?
The recession, as we've talked about, seems to be different from previous recessions, given the severe housing slump, th...
What would you say, just to summarize, have been the biggest areas of loss for the types of jobs across the country?
Just to summarize, there were 611,000 jobs lost in the private sector last month, is that right?
Consumer spending did rise 2.2 percent on an annualized basis in the last quarter.
There are reasons for some optimism regarding the state of our economy.
I always like to bring this up, because I don't think people think about this as much as they should.
