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Topic: Unemployment (page 17)

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm speaks during a Ford Motor Company news conference at the Ford Van Dyke Transmission Plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., Monday, Oct. 25, 2010. Ford said Monday it will invest $850 million in several Detroit-area plants to build its new six-speed transmissions and improve facilities. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) (Paul Sancya)

Background image: Crowds of job-seekers wait to enter a job fair at Crenshaw Christian Center in South Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011.

Exciting new talking point: "Blue state bailout"

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Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorff (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

Jefferson Morley

President Obama and Steve Schwarzman (inset)

Billionaire private equity mogul wants "sacrifice"

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President Obama

President Barack Obama delivers a speech to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011

President Obama

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama speakst in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama is sacking a controversial proposed regulation tightening health-based standards for smog, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders. In a statement Friday, Obama said he had ordered Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson to withdraw the proposal, in part because of the importance of reducing regulatory burdens and uncertainty for businesses at a time of rampant uncertainty about an unsteady economy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP)

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Crowds of job-seekers wait to enter a job fair at Crenshaw Christian Center in South Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011. Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, a sign layoffs have stabilized. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon) (AP)

Alan Krueger

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In this Dec. 17, 2010 photo, Theresa Christenson holds an unemployment check in her home in Burbank, Calif. Before she was laid off from a quality assurance job at Yahoo in July 2009, Christenson earned around $100,000 a year. The 58-year-old has managed to hang on to the 4-bedroom house that she co-owns with her sister, where they've lived for 22 years. "It really gets me when they say 'you lazy people,'" says Christenson, who lives on $1,720 a month in unemployment insurance benefits and what's left of her dwindling 401K. "They have no idea how depressing that is when you have been beating your head against the wall, trying to find work. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) (Nick Ut)

Coca-Cola employee Farrah Deonarine of Weston, Fla., right, passes out forms at a jobs fair hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus in Miami, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. The fair is aimed at lowering the especially high rate of unemployment in the black community. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) (AP)

Stephen Ohlemacher

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Enough with the deficit talk -- what about jobs?!

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the Aragon Ballroom, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011, in Chicago, in Chicago, at a fundraiser on the eve of his 50th birthday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

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In this Aug. 4, 2011 photo, a trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Global stock markets tumbled Friday, Aug. 5, amid fears the U.S. may be heading back into recession and Europe's debt crisis is worsening. The sell-off follows the biggest one-day points decline on Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis. (AP Photo/Jin Lee) (AP)

Christopher S. Rugaber

Ken Langone

The baffling paranoia of rich guys against Obama

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