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Topic: Unemployment (page 18)

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton

(AP)

The jobs crisis is about to get worse

Former president Bill Clinton on Nov. 6, 1996.

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President Barack Obama

In this June 15, 2011 photo, job seekers wait in a line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich. Two years after economists declared the end of the Great Recession, the rebound is the weakest since the 1930s and the most lop-sided. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) (AP)

In this May 3, 2011 photo, Samantha Ferrara, 19, waits in line for a job fair to open, in Independence, Ohio. Employers added more than 200,000 jobs in April for the third straight month, the biggest hiring spree in five years. But the unemployment rate rose to 9 percent in part because some people resumed looking for work. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) (Tony Dejak)

President Barack Obama pauses before answering a question during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

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President Barack Obama gestures during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., makes her formal announcement to seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, Monday, June 27, 2011, in Waterloo, Iowa. Bachmann, who was born in Waterloo, will continue her announcement tour this week with stops in New Hampshire and South Carolina. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (Charlie Riedel)

Bachmann-omics: An annotated guide

How unemployment got so bad, so fast

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., answers a question during the first New Hampshire Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (AP)

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Dan Pfeiffer

The White House versus the liberals

A Palestinian family waits before crossing into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Egypt officially and fully reopens its passenger crossing with Gaza at the town of Rafah, after a long period of restrictions aimed at isolating the Hamas militant group that rules the Palestinian coastal strip which could ease the isolation of 1.4 million Palestinians there. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2011, file photo U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answers questions at the closing press conference of the G20 Finance summit in Paris. Five years and one financial crisis since the United States and China commenced regular high-level economic talks, fast-growing Beijing might have the upper hand Monday, May 9, 2011, in the latest round of discussions between the world's two biggest economies. While analysts don't foresee major breakthroughs at the talks Monday and Tuesday, China's expanding economic might will give it greater leverage now. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File) (AP)

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Eric Cantor and John Boehner

Homeless men sleep on benches while job seekers register at the 10th annual Skid Row Career Fair held at the Los Angeles Mission downtown Los Angeles Thursday, June 2, 2011. Employers hired only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest in eight months, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (Damian Dovarganes)

We are alarmingly close to a double-dip recession

In this May 3, 2011 photo, Samantha Ferrara, 19, waits in line for a job fair to open, in Independence, Ohio. Employers added more than 200,000 jobs in April for the third straight month, the biggest hiring spree in five years. But the unemployment rate rose to 9 percent in part because some people resumed looking for work. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) (Tony Dejak)

The end of the recovery?

Christopher S. Rugaber

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President Obama

A demonstrator reads the newspaper as she spends the night in Sol square during a protest in Madrid. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

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