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Minimum wage rate and wage differentials: Participants in discussions may thoughtlessly limit their remarks to only to only those employees earning precisely the federal minimum wage rate of $7.25 per hour, rather than to some lowest bracket or percentile of wage rates. Due to employers’ common...

The current unemployment rate in the USA just reached 4.1%, a seventeen (17) year low! :cool: The manufacturing unemployment rate just reached a RECORD 2.6% unemployment rate, a HISTORIC all time low! :D To think some people think Obama was a good President! :rolleyes:

Eisenhower (a Repub) taxed the rich at 90%. ;) Edit by myp: This thread is a split from: http://www.politicalfray.com/showthread.php?p=37264

Some are attributing it to stricter gun control. Levitt and Dubner might suggest Roe v. Wade. Any other theories? Either way, good news. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-26/new-york-police-say-murders-to-hit-50-year-low-in-city.html

Japan cut theirs effective April 1st and there you have it. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-corporate-tax-rate-poised-171800370.html

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 200,000 beating economist expectations of 150,000. The unemployment rate dropped from 8.7% to 8.5%. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-usa-economy-idUSTRE7BM0AB20120106

The Labor Department released their monthly jobs report today in which the jobless rate unexpectedly fell to 9.7 percent. 20,000 jobs were still lost in January though, but those numbers are better than the previous two months. Part of the drop in the unemployment number is due to discouraged...

The unemployment rate went up again in the month of October, jumping from 9.8% to 10.2%, making it the highest since 1983. It seems harder than ever to get a job right now and things could sadly get worse. Thoughts?

I would give him a B. In terms of getting his agenda across, he really did hit the floor running as promised. I fully approve of his executive orders to close Gitmo and ban torture. His first press briefing went as well as can be expected and the new daily press briefings he will be getting...

Well, this is just crazy: a recent Goldman Sachs analysis says that the current 0% interest rate is not sufficient and it must be reduced to -6% in order to supply what the report calls the "needed amount of monetary stimulus" This essentially means that the lender losses money on the...