Eight major Massachusetts cities had “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rates in August 2013 that exceeded the national “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for that month of 7.3 percent, according to recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data:
1. The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate in Lawrence, Massachusetts was 14.9 percent in August 2013;
2. The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate in New Bedford, Massachusetts was 13.1 percent in August 2013;
3. The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate in Fall River, Massachusetts was 12.3 percent in August 2013;
4. The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate in Springfield, Massachusetts was 11.6 percent in August 2013;
5. The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate in Brockton, Massachusetts was 9.5 percent in August 2013;
6. The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate in Worcester, Massachusetts was 8.9 percent in August 2013;
7. The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate in Lowell, Massachusetts was 8.5 percent in August 2013; and
8. The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate in Lynn, Massachusetts was 7.9 percent in August 2013.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate in Boston, Massachusetts in August 2013 was 7.1 percent.
According to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development’s September 19, 2013 press release:
“…Revised BLS estimates show a 300 jobs loss in July….Over the year, Manufacturing lost 1,500 (-0.6%) jobs….Other Services lost 1,200 (-1.0%) jobs over the month… Professional, Scientific and Business Services lost 300 (-0.1%) jobs over the month…Trade, Transportation and Utilities lost 100 (0.0%) jobs over the month…The August labor force increased by 1,200 from 3,490,600 in July 2013, as 1,200 fewer residents were employed and 2,400 more residents were unemployed over the month….”
In August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data, 241,700 workers in Massachusetts were still unemployed. Over 66,000 of these unemployed Massachusetts workers—or around one out of every four unemployed Bay State workers—live in either Boston, Brockton, Fall River, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, New Bedford, Springfield or Worcester.
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Friday, September 27, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Bill De Blasio: Hillary Clinton's Puppet for Mayor of New York City?--Part 1
“In February 2000, I formally declared my candidacy…Patti Solis Doyle…coordinated my White House and campaign schedules,…overseeing logistics and helping to run campaign strategy…On the campaign, Patti joined an experienced team led by my campaign manager, Bill de Blasio, who proved to be an outstanding strategist and trusted emissary among the…communities of New York…Finance director Gabrielle Fialkoff…handled the…critical job of raising money…”
--former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2003
BILL DE BLASIO: HILLARY CLINTON'S PUPPET FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY?
In 2000 the wife of former Arkansas Governor and then-Democratic President Bill Clinton decided she wanted to disenfranchise voters in New York--by “carpetbagging” from the White House, grabbing a third seat in the U.S. Senate for Arkansas’s white corporate power structure, using the seat in the U.S. Senate as a stepping-stone for her presidential campaign, and voting to support the Bush Administration’s 2003 military attack on Iraq that most New Yorkers opposed.
And, coincidentally, when former Wal-Mart board member Hillary Clinton needed a campaign manager in New York to help her disenfranchise New York City anti-war voters, the local politician she hired to manage her 2000 campaign to grab New York’s seat in the U.S. Senate was none other than 2013 Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio. As the “New York Times” (8/25/13) recalled:
“Mr. de Blasio, a former official in the Clinton administration under Housing Secretary Andrew M. Cuomo, joined the campaign in late 1999, after being recommended by several people close to the Clintons, including Harold Ickes, a former deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton….His primary objectives — given the carpetbagging charges that dogged Mrs. Clinton — included serving as a liaison to New York’s power brokers, in the city and upstate…
“Never was he more instrumental, his colleagues say, than when he soothed the feelings of Jewish leaders…Indeed, Mr. de Blasio stayed in close contact with Assemblyman Dov Hikind ... And Patti Solis Doyle, a longtime adviser to Mrs. Clinton, said that the former first lady `would not have been senator without him’ because `he paved the way for her with many of the prickly political factions in New York State.’
“Mr. de Blasio’s assiduous courtship of Jewish leaders in Brooklyn also solidified his credentials for his own Council run in 2001. Colleagues even joked about his frequent trips to Brooklyn during the Senate race, and started calling him Councilman.
“And his networking efforts paid off: Mrs. Clinton’s Senate donors eventually accounted for more than a third of his fund-raising haul in his Council race, according to an analysis by `The New York Times’….”
Like her apparent puppet, Hillary Clinton did not get any of her pre-2000 jobs by being chosen in an election by New York City voters. “Hillary: Her True Story” by Norman King describes how the possible 2016 Democratic Party presidential candidate obtained, for instance, her lucrative corporate lawyer job at Arkansas’s Rose Law firm during the 1970s:
“When her husband took the oath of office in January 1977 and prepared for two years of dealing with the enforcement of law in the state of Arkansas. Hillary looked around for some kind of legal work…She was pleasantly surprised to land a place at the Rose Law firm…
“Conflict-of-interest questions frequently arose because the Rose organization was so ingrained in the Arkansas establishment…The firm specialized in…business litigation…Many of its clients were corporations, including General Motors,…the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, and Tyson Foods.
“…According to partner George Campbell of Rose, `Herb [Rule] was responsible for getting her’…Clinton and Rule, a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, had been friends since Rule’s campaign for the 1974 congressional seat. `I was the point person on recruiting,’ Rule recalled, `and I got the word that she was coming, and I tracked her down.’”
Between 1985 and 1992, the Clinton Administration in Arkansas, coincidentally, dished out over $240,000 in Arkansas government contracts to the Rose corporate law firm that employed Hillary Clinton, according to the April 27, 1992 issue of "U.S. News & World Report". Of the $240,000 in state contracts Hillary Clinton’s law firm received from her husband’s administration, $135,000 came from Arkansas state agencies and $109,000 came from Arkansas state bond counseling work. Although Bill Clinton’s economic program in Arkansas enabled his family to accumulate over $1 million in assets during the 1980s, in 1991 only seven other states had a greater percentage of people living in poverty than had Arkansas. Only four other states had a lower average income than Arkansas in 1989, when Arkansas’s average income was over $5,000 less than the U.S. national average and nearly $10,000 less than the average income in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
So don’t expect a New York City Mayor who has a history of being an apparent puppet of the Clintons of Arkansas to be anymore politically effective in finally ending poverty in New York City after 2013 than the Clintons were in finally ending poverty in either Arkansas or the United States when they held political offices prior to 2013.
--former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2003
BILL DE BLASIO: HILLARY CLINTON'S PUPPET FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY?
In 2000 the wife of former Arkansas Governor and then-Democratic President Bill Clinton decided she wanted to disenfranchise voters in New York--by “carpetbagging” from the White House, grabbing a third seat in the U.S. Senate for Arkansas’s white corporate power structure, using the seat in the U.S. Senate as a stepping-stone for her presidential campaign, and voting to support the Bush Administration’s 2003 military attack on Iraq that most New Yorkers opposed.
And, coincidentally, when former Wal-Mart board member Hillary Clinton needed a campaign manager in New York to help her disenfranchise New York City anti-war voters, the local politician she hired to manage her 2000 campaign to grab New York’s seat in the U.S. Senate was none other than 2013 Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio. As the “New York Times” (8/25/13) recalled:
“Mr. de Blasio, a former official in the Clinton administration under Housing Secretary Andrew M. Cuomo, joined the campaign in late 1999, after being recommended by several people close to the Clintons, including Harold Ickes, a former deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton….His primary objectives — given the carpetbagging charges that dogged Mrs. Clinton — included serving as a liaison to New York’s power brokers, in the city and upstate…
“Never was he more instrumental, his colleagues say, than when he soothed the feelings of Jewish leaders…Indeed, Mr. de Blasio stayed in close contact with Assemblyman Dov Hikind ... And Patti Solis Doyle, a longtime adviser to Mrs. Clinton, said that the former first lady `would not have been senator without him’ because `he paved the way for her with many of the prickly political factions in New York State.’
“Mr. de Blasio’s assiduous courtship of Jewish leaders in Brooklyn also solidified his credentials for his own Council run in 2001. Colleagues even joked about his frequent trips to Brooklyn during the Senate race, and started calling him Councilman.
“And his networking efforts paid off: Mrs. Clinton’s Senate donors eventually accounted for more than a third of his fund-raising haul in his Council race, according to an analysis by `The New York Times’….”
Like her apparent puppet, Hillary Clinton did not get any of her pre-2000 jobs by being chosen in an election by New York City voters. “Hillary: Her True Story” by Norman King describes how the possible 2016 Democratic Party presidential candidate obtained, for instance, her lucrative corporate lawyer job at Arkansas’s Rose Law firm during the 1970s:
“When her husband took the oath of office in January 1977 and prepared for two years of dealing with the enforcement of law in the state of Arkansas. Hillary looked around for some kind of legal work…She was pleasantly surprised to land a place at the Rose Law firm…
“Conflict-of-interest questions frequently arose because the Rose organization was so ingrained in the Arkansas establishment…The firm specialized in…business litigation…Many of its clients were corporations, including General Motors,…the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, and Tyson Foods.
“…According to partner George Campbell of Rose, `Herb [Rule] was responsible for getting her’…Clinton and Rule, a former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, had been friends since Rule’s campaign for the 1974 congressional seat. `I was the point person on recruiting,’ Rule recalled, `and I got the word that she was coming, and I tracked her down.’”
Between 1985 and 1992, the Clinton Administration in Arkansas, coincidentally, dished out over $240,000 in Arkansas government contracts to the Rose corporate law firm that employed Hillary Clinton, according to the April 27, 1992 issue of "U.S. News & World Report". Of the $240,000 in state contracts Hillary Clinton’s law firm received from her husband’s administration, $135,000 came from Arkansas state agencies and $109,000 came from Arkansas state bond counseling work. Although Bill Clinton’s economic program in Arkansas enabled his family to accumulate over $1 million in assets during the 1980s, in 1991 only seven other states had a greater percentage of people living in poverty than had Arkansas. Only four other states had a lower average income than Arkansas in 1989, when Arkansas’s average income was over $5,000 less than the U.S. national average and nearly $10,000 less than the average income in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
So don’t expect a New York City Mayor who has a history of being an apparent puppet of the Clintons of Arkansas to be anymore politically effective in finally ending poverty in New York City after 2013 than the Clintons were in finally ending poverty in either Arkansas or the United States when they held political offices prior to 2013.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Black Worker `Not Seasonally Adjusted’ Unemployment Rate Increases To 13.5 Percent In August 2013
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all Black workers (youth, male and female) increased from 13.4 to 13.5 percent between July and August 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Black male workers over 20 years-of-age jumped from 12.4 to 13.3 percent during the same period, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data. In addition, the “not seasonally adjusted” total number of jobless Black male workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 61,000 (from 1,052,000 to 1,113,000) between July and August 2013; while the number of Black male workers over 20 years-of-age who still had jobs decreased by 174,000 (from 7,398,000 to 7,224,000) during the same period, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Black female workers over 20 years-of-age increased from 11.3 to 11.5 percent between July and August 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” number of unemployed Black female workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 25,000 (from 1,063,000 to 1,088,000) during that same period. In addition, the number of Black female workers over 20 years-of-age who still had jobs decreased by 27,000 (from 8,382,000 to 8,355,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 38.4 percent in August 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” number of unemployed Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 306,000 in August 2013.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Latino male workers over 20 years-of-age increased from 7.7 to 7.9 percent between July and August 2013; while the number of unemployed Latino male workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 33,000 (from 1,063,000 to 1,096,000) during the same period. In addition, the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 28.4 percent in August 2013: while the number of unemployed Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age who still had jobs decreased by 78,,000 (from 997,000 to 919,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 8.7 percent in August 2013; while the number of Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age who still had jobs decreased by 103,000 (from 9,041,000 to 8,938,000) between July and August 2013. In addition, the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for all Latino workers in the United States (male, female and youth) was still 9.2 percent in August 2013; while the total number of Latino workers not in the U.S. labor force increased by 338,000 (from 12,328,000 to 12,666,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for white youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 19.4 percent in August 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all white workers (youth, male and female) was still 6.4 percent in that same month. In addition, between July and August 2013, the total number of white workers in the United States who still had jobs decreased by 537,000 (from 116,321,000 to 115,884,000); while the number of white workers in the U.S. labor force dropped by 1,021,000 (from 124,807,000 to 123,786,000) during the same period, according to the official “not seasonally adjusted” data..
In August 2013, the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for white female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 5.9 percent; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for white male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 5.8 percent in the same month.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Asian-American workers was still 5.1 percent in August 2013; while the number of Asian-American workers who still had jobs decreased by 20,000 (from 8,153,000 to 8,133,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data. In addition, the number of Asian-American workers in the U.S. labor force decreased by 67,000 (from 8,641,000 to 8,574,000) during the same period, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
In August 2013, the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 22.1 percent; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for all female workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States was still 7.3 percent in that same month. In addition, the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all male workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States was still 7.4 percent in August 2013.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all male workers over 20 years-of-age in the United States was still 6.7 percent in August 2013; while the “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for all female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 6.7 percent in that same month..
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all U.S. workers was still 7.3 percent in August 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” total number of unemployed workers in the United States was still 11,462,000 in that same month. In addition, the total number of people not in the U.S. labor force increased by 1,428,000 (from 88,560,000 to 89,988,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ September 6,, 2013 press release:
“…The unemployment rate was little changed at 7.3 percent…Employment…declined in information...Both the number of unemployed persons, at 11.3 million, and the unemployment rate at 7.3 percent, changed little in August…
“In August, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was about unchanged at 4.3 million. These individuals accounted for 37.9 percent of the unemployed…The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) declined by 334,000 to 7.9 million in August. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job…
“In August, 2.3 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force…These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey…
“Among the marginally attached, there were 866,000 discouraged workers in August, essentially unchanged from a year earlier…Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them…
“…In August…employment in information declined...Employment in temporary help services changed little in August…Within information, the motion picture and sound recording industry lost 22,000 jobs in August…Employment in…mining and logging, construction, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, and government, showed little or no change in August…
“The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for June was revised from +188,000 to +172,000, and the change for July was revised from +162,000 to +104,000. With these revisions, employment gains in June and July combined were 74,000 less than previously reported…”
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Black female workers over 20 years-of-age increased from 11.3 to 11.5 percent between July and August 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” number of unemployed Black female workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 25,000 (from 1,063,000 to 1,088,000) during that same period. In addition, the number of Black female workers over 20 years-of-age who still had jobs decreased by 27,000 (from 8,382,000 to 8,355,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 38.4 percent in August 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” number of unemployed Black youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 306,000 in August 2013.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Latino male workers over 20 years-of-age increased from 7.7 to 7.9 percent between July and August 2013; while the number of unemployed Latino male workers over 20 years-of-age increased by 33,000 (from 1,063,000 to 1,096,000) during the same period. In addition, the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 28.4 percent in August 2013: while the number of unemployed Latino youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age who still had jobs decreased by 78,,000 (from 997,000 to 919,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 8.7 percent in August 2013; while the number of Latina female workers over 20 years-of-age who still had jobs decreased by 103,000 (from 9,041,000 to 8,938,000) between July and August 2013. In addition, the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for all Latino workers in the United States (male, female and youth) was still 9.2 percent in August 2013; while the total number of Latino workers not in the U.S. labor force increased by 338,000 (from 12,328,000 to 12,666,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for white youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 19.4 percent in August 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all white workers (youth, male and female) was still 6.4 percent in that same month. In addition, between July and August 2013, the total number of white workers in the United States who still had jobs decreased by 537,000 (from 116,321,000 to 115,884,000); while the number of white workers in the U.S. labor force dropped by 1,021,000 (from 124,807,000 to 123,786,000) during the same period, according to the official “not seasonally adjusted” data..
In August 2013, the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for white female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 5.9 percent; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for white male workers over 20 years-of-age was still 5.8 percent in the same month.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Asian-American workers was still 5.1 percent in August 2013; while the number of Asian-American workers who still had jobs decreased by 20,000 (from 8,153,000 to 8,133,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data. In addition, the number of Asian-American workers in the U.S. labor force decreased by 67,000 (from 8,641,000 to 8,574,000) during the same period, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
In August 2013, the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all youths between 16 and 19 years-of-age was still 22.1 percent; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for all female workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States was still 7.3 percent in that same month. In addition, the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all male workers over 16 years-of-age in the United States was still 7.4 percent in August 2013.
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all male workers over 20 years-of-age in the United States was still 6.7 percent in August 2013; while the “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for all female workers over 20 years-of-age was still 6.7 percent in that same month..
The official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all U.S. workers was still 7.3 percent in August 2013; while the official “not seasonally adjusted” total number of unemployed workers in the United States was still 11,462,000 in that same month. In addition, the total number of people not in the U.S. labor force increased by 1,428,000 (from 88,560,000 to 89,988,000) between July and August 2013, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ September 6,, 2013 press release:
“…The unemployment rate was little changed at 7.3 percent…Employment…declined in information...Both the number of unemployed persons, at 11.3 million, and the unemployment rate at 7.3 percent, changed little in August…
“In August, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was about unchanged at 4.3 million. These individuals accounted for 37.9 percent of the unemployed…The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) declined by 334,000 to 7.9 million in August. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job…
“In August, 2.3 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force…These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey…
“Among the marginally attached, there were 866,000 discouraged workers in August, essentially unchanged from a year earlier…Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them…
“…In August…employment in information declined...Employment in temporary help services changed little in August…Within information, the motion picture and sound recording industry lost 22,000 jobs in August…Employment in…mining and logging, construction, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, and government, showed little or no change in August…
“The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for June was revised from +188,000 to +172,000, and the change for July was revised from +162,000 to +104,000. With these revisions, employment gains in June and July combined were 74,000 less than previously reported…”