Where are All the New Jobs?

[leftstreet]

anybody know?

:shrug:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/mmls.nr0.htm

During the 14 months from December 2007 through January 2009, the
total number of mass layoff events (seasonally adjusted) was 25,712,
and the number of initial claims (seasonally adjusted) was 2,632,336.
(December 2007 was the start of a recession as designated by the
National Bureau of Economic Research.)

The national unemployment rate was 7.6 percent in January 2009, sea-
sonally adjusted, up from 7.2 percent the prior month and from 4.9 per-
cent a year earlier. In January, total nonfarm payroll employment de-
creased by 598,000 over the month and by 3,500,000 from a year earlier.

http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/17/layoff-tracker-unemployement-lead-cx_kk_1118tracker.html

Number of layoffs since Nov. 1, 2008, at America's 500 largest public companies*:

Date Company Total Laid Off Industry

3/17/2009 Corning 200 Technology
3/17/2009 Weyerhaeuser 739 Materials
3/16/2009 TRW 417 Consumer Durables
3/13/2009 Baker Hughes 3,000 Oil & Gas
3/13/2009 PPG Industries 2,500 Chemicals
3/13/2009 Sunoco 750 Oil & Gas
3/11/2009 AMR 323 Transportation
3/10/2009 Lowe's 82 Retailing
3/10/2009 Principal Fin 60 Financials
3/10/2009 United Tech 11,600 Conglomerates
3/6/2009 Deere & Co. 987 Capital Goods
3/4/2009 Northrop Grummn 750 Aerospace
3/4/2009 Dover 180 Conglomerates
3/4/2009 GeneralDynamics 1,379 Aerospace
3/3/2009 U.S. Steel 6,705 Materials
3/3/2009 FirstEnergy 335 Utilities
2/26/2009 Chesapeake Ener 215 Oil & Gas Operations
2/26/2009 JPMorgan Chase 14,000 Banking
2/25/2009 Dow Chemical 800 Joint Venture
2/25/2009 Coach 150 Household
2/24/2009 Micron Tech 2,000 Semiconductors
2/19/2009 Avon Products 3,000 Household
2/19/2009 Forturne Brands 236 Consumer Durables
2/18/2009 Chevron 230 Oil and gas
2/18/2009 Delta Air Lines 2,100 Transportation
2/18/2009 Best Buy 540 Retailing
2/18/2009 Goodyear 5,000 Consumer Durables
2/17/2009 Agilent Tech 600 Technology
2/17/2009 MDU Resources 130 Utilities
2/17/2009 General Motors 66,758 Consumer Durables
2/17/2009 Johnson Control 205 Consumer Durables
2/17/2009 Smithfield Food 1,800 Food
2/16/2009 Delphi 800 Consumer Durables
2/13/2009 Wal-Mart Stores 1,200 Retailing
2/11/2009 United Tech 1,350 Conglomerates
2/11/2009 W.W. Grainger 400 Capital Goods
2/11/2009 Caterpillar 24,924 Capital Goods
2/11/2009 Terex 5,000 Capital Goods
2/10/2009 News Corp. 90 Media
2/10/2009 U.S Airways Grp 233 Transportation
2/10/2009 Nike 1,400 Products
2/10/2009 General Elec 3,050 Conglomerates
2/9/2009 Emerson Elec 14,000 Conglomerates
2/5/2009 Estée Lauder 2,000 Personal Products
2/5/2009 Allergan 460 Pharmaceuticals
2/4/2009 Time Warner 2,750 Media
2/4/2009 Cisco Systems 2,000 Technology
2/3/2009 Bancshares 500 Banking
2/3/2009 Electronic Arts 1,100 Software
2/3/2009 PNC FinServices 5,800 Banking
2/3/2009 Comcast 50 Media
2/2/2009 Goodrich 35 Aerospace
2/2/2009 Macy's 7,000 Retailing
1/30/2009 Sears Holdings 300 Retailing
1/29/2009 Broadcom 200 Semiconductors
1/29/2009 IntGaming Tech 200 Leisure
1/29/2009 Textron 4,665 Conglomerates
1/29/2009 Ford 3,800 Durables
1/29/2009 Eastman Kodak 4,500 Household
1/29/2009 Black & Decker 1,200 Household
1/29/2009 Walt Disney 1,200 Media
1/28/2009 Starbucks 6,700 Restaurants
1/28/2009 Boeing 10,000 Aerospace
1/27/2009 Target 1,000 Retailing
1/27/2009 Masco 600 Construction
1/26/2009 IBM 2,800 Software
1/26/2009 TexasInstrument 3,400 Semiconductors
1/26/2009 Lincoln Natnl 540 Insurance
1/26/2009 Home Depot 7,000 Retailing
1/26/2009 Pfizer 19,800 Pharmaceuticals
1/26/2009 Sprint Nextel 8,000 Telecommunications
1/23/2009 Aber & Fitch 50 Retailing
1/23/2009 Harley-Davidson 1,100 Consumer Durables
1/22/2009 Microsoft 5,000 Software
1/22/2009 Huntsman 1,665 Chemicals
1/21/2009 BurlingSantaFe 2,500 Transportation
1/21/2009 UAL 1,000 Transportation
1/21/2009 SPX 400 Conglomerates
1/21/2009 Intel 5,000 Semiconductors
1/21/2009 Walt Disney 600 Media
1/21/2009 Wynn Resorts 53 Leisure
1/21/2009 Eaton 5,609 Capital Goods
1/20/2009 Clear Channel 1,850 Media
1/16/2009 ConocoPhillips 1,300 Oil & Gas
1/16/2009 Hertz Global 4,000 Business Services
1/16/2009 WellPoint 600 Health Care
1/16/2009 Advanced Micro 1,700 Semiconductors
1/15/2009 Xerox 275 Business Services
1/15/2009 MeadWestvaco 2,000 Materials
1/15/2009 Marsh Ilsley 830 Banking
1/14/2009 Ecolab 1,000 Chemicals
1/14/2009 Motorola 4,000 Technology
1/14/2009 Google 100 Software
1/13/2009 KeyCorp 200 Banking
1/13/2009 Newell Rubbermd 75 Household
1/13/2009 Cummins 1,300 Capital Goods
1/12/2009 Mosaic 1,000 Chemicals
1/12/2009 Precision Cast 40 Defense
1/9/2009 Oracle 500 Software
1/9/2009 Smithfield Fds 75 Food
1/9/2009 Freeport-McMoRa 2,750 Materials
1/8/2009 Union Pacific 230 Transportation
1/7/2009 Walgreen 1,000 Retailing
1/7/2009 EMC 2,400 Technology
1/6/2009 Alcoa 13,500 Materials
1/5/2009 Cigna 1,100 Health Care
12/31/2008 Mohawk Indust 160 Consumer Durables
12/31/2008 Tyson Foods 120 Food
12/31/2008 Target 132 Retailing
12/30/2008 Allegheny Tech 323 Materials
12/30/2008 Motorola 400 Technology
12/23/2008 ULA 172 Joint Venture
12/23/2008 Las Vegas Sands 11,500 Leisure
12/22/2008 Parker-Hannifin 405 Capital Goods
12/19/2008 Genworth Fin 1,000 Insurance
12/19/2008 Sovereign Banc 1,000 Banking
12/18/2008 Omnicom Group 3,145 Media
12/17/2008 Ryder System 3,100 Services
12/17/2008 Western Digital 2,500 Technology
12/17/2008 Aetna 1,000 Health Care
12/17/2008 Parker-Hannifin 46 Capital Goods
12/17/2008 Bristol-MyersSq 3,700 Pharmaceuticals
12/16/2008 CBS 30 Media
12/15/2008 Merrill Lynch 400 Financials
12/15/2008 Charles Schwab 100 Financials
12/13/2008 Berkshire Hath 345 Finance
12/12/2008 Internat Paper 2,050 Materials
12/11/2008 Bank of Amer 35,000 Banking
12/11/2008 Whirlpool 250 Durables
12/10/2008 Mohawk Indust 105 Durables
12/10/2008 Procter& Gamble 320 Household
12/09/2008 Praxair 1,600 Chemicals
12/08/2008 Anheuser-Busch. 1,400 Food
12/08/2008 3M 2,300 Conglomerates
12/08/2008 Wyndham World 4,000 Leisure
12/08/2008 Dow Chemical 5,000 Chemicals
12/05/2008 Legg Mason 200 Financials
12/05/2008 Cablevision 100 Media
12/05/2008 Staples 140 Retailing
12/04/2008 Steel Dynamics 65 Materials
12/04/2008 Windstream 170 Telecommunications
12/04/2008 E.I. du Pont 2,500 Chemicals
12/04/2008 AT&T 12,000 Telecommunications
12/03/2008 Gannett 2,000 Media
12/03/2008 Adobe Systems 600 Software
12/03/2008 Jefferies Group 300 Financials
12/03/2008 Viacom 850 Media
12/01/2008 PepsiCo 87 Food
11/25/2008 Dana Holding 50 Durables
11/24/2008 BlackRock 10 Financials
11/21/2008 Western Union 200 Business Services
11/20/2008 Bank ofNew York 1,800 Banking
11/20/2008 Boeing 800 Aerospace
11/17/2008 Citigroup 52,000 Banking
11/14/2008 Sun Microsys 6,000 Technology
11/12/2008 Applied Mater 1,800 Technology
11/12/2008 Morgan Stanley 2,000 Finance
11/12/2008 Liberty Media 910 Retailing
11/11/2008 AK Steel Hold 800 Materials
11/6/2008 Mattel 1,000 Household
11/6/2008 MGM Mirage 400 Leisure
11/4/2008 Hartford Fin 500 Finance

[Stinky The Clown]

1. I suspect the stmulus money will take more than an hour to make it through the system ......

[Emit]

2. lol!

[leftstreet]

3. Well, the bank bailout money sure filtered through fast enough

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[OhioChick]

5. You raise a good point there! n/t

[Two Americas]

15. it shouldn't

All we need to do is abandon the "trickle down" approach, and hire the people directly.

With the stimulus money, we could hire every unemployed person in the country and paid them $50,000 a year and put them to work rebuilding the country. That would super-charge the economy - over night. That would get cash flowing, increase productivity, raise wages, stabilize housing and manufacturing and would work and work quickly to get the country back on its feet.

"Work through the system" - that should be a sick joke to any and all Democrats by now, don't you think? "Work through the system" means give the wealthy and powerful few the loot and hope that some of it somehow trickles down to us. We tried that. It doesn't work. That is what caused the mess.



....

[and-justice-for-all]

18. I'll give it an hour and a half..but thats all damn it!!!

:silly:

[stillcool]

4. Do you know what 'your' state is doing

with it's stimulus money? http://www.recovery.gov/

[leftstreet]

10. I do! My state will repair the highways Wal-Mart trucks tore up

Given the high unemployment and continued bleeding of jobs, it's not like us peons will have anywhere we need to drive!

[stillcool]

11. And that's it? Really?

Maybe you don't really care?


Governor's Communications Office, 360-902-4136

Project List

Gov. Gregoire holds Spokane economic roundtable discussion
For Immediate Release: March 17, 2009

SPOKANE – Gov. Chris Gregoire today met with business, labor and education leaders at Spokane Community College to develop strategies to help Washington pull through the national recession.
-------------------------------------
In her state stimulus package, the governor has proposed spending $32 million to construct a technical education building at SCC. In addition, Gregoire has proposed spending more than $29 million to build a chemistry and life science building at Spokane Falls Community College.

“The proposed funding for construction at Spokane’s community colleges falls right in line with our strategy to get people back to work,” Gregoire said. “I see nothing more fitting than to put money toward those projects that are ready for construction this spring. At the same time, we will improve our higher education system to help people develop job skills for this changing economy.”
Gregoire’s Washington Jobs Now package includes $427 million in construction projects that are ready for groundbreaking in the next few months.

The package also includes $390 million to accelerate transportation projects statewide that are ready for construction, including $15 million to continue work on the North Spokane Corridor. The investment would pay for grading of the southbound alignment from Freya to Parksmith and the construction of the Lincoln and Gerlach bridges.

Combined with the state’s transportation budget, Gregoire’s stimulus plan is expected to create and sustain nearly 20,000 jobs over the next two years.

http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/state-recovery-page

[leftstreet]

12. No, there's other stuff of course, but the bulk of it's in road repair

Plus LOL they're spending some of it on a new commission to 'study' how to implement what they 'hope' will be a 2nd round of stimulus monies.

I kid you not.

[stillcool]

13. I looked at your profile

and it said Washington...I edited my post to include your Governor's phone number.

[wartrace]

6. My plant didn't make the list?

Bridgestone/Firestone LaVergne plant-900

[jody]

7. It's 12:00 midnight, do you know where your stimulus dollars are? n/t

[OhioChick]

8. In some greedy bastard's offshore acct. n/t

[stillcool]

9. Are you keeping track of the money..

in your state? Do you care?

http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/state-recovery-page

[jody]

14. Do you keep track of the money in your state? Do you care? n/t

[stillcool]

17. why yes...Yes I do!..

it's on my Governor's website. Very easy to check out.

[SoCalDem]

16. Here

Congrats (former) Middle Class !
Posted by SoCalDem in General Discussion

Mon Feb 23rd 2009, 06:02 PM


Wall Street Experts & Bankers have a plan for your future


That comfy well-paying job you still have or may have recently lost, or fear losing, is no problem to worry your pretty mind over anymore.

You need Re-training™ for the " NEW Service Economy™" .

Yes, that's right, folks. That degree that you slaved to get, and are still paying for 15 years later, may no longer be part of the globalization plan. It just is not practical or profitable anymore..

Outsourced jobs are just a fact of life in the New Age™ .. it's nothing personal.

You may start salivating when you see ads for Fancy Feast on tv, but don't worry, the Chinese assure us they have removed the melamine.

The beauty of the plan is that while you are "Re-training™" you use your Visa and or Master Card to make that house payment, car payment and other bills (until they reduce the limit to $500.00, or cancel it).

When you are though with your Re-training™ , you can sell that house to the many entrepreneurs who will be eagerly buying up houses in this bargain-housing extravaganza. Maybe one of them will even hire you to distribute flyers to other soon-to-be sellers.. In a NEW Service Economy™ there are many ways to make money.

If you give him/her a good enough "deal" on your former house, you might even be able to rent it, and never again have to worry about the upkeep on it. It's a win-win.

The job you originally trained for may have come with a health care benefits program and some paid vacation, but surely your "new career" as a "sub-service worker" will afford you adventurous living like you've never experienced before.

Multiple part time jobs offer you the opportunity to get to know a wide variety of new people, and the experience of learning how MANY businesses do their business. It will definitely cut down on the old one-job/one-career stagnation that so many Americans have suffered from for far too long.

You may have the opportunity to learn to cook..(and, in some restaurants they even give you a discount on food for your break), or to make reservations to exciting destinations.... or to discover the inner workings of a developing child's mind and personality, as you do daycare,....or you could become an environmentalist as you carefully test automobile emissions...you could bridge the generation gap while you tend to the needs of the Greatest Generation™ ..(imagine the stories they will tell you as you change their diapers/bedding)

Like to work outdoors? The NEW Service Economy™ offers you opportunities too...School children will always need to cross streets carefully... commune with nature as you do leaf removal...cars need TLC too, and that cool water on a hot day feels pretty good... Lawn care is a highly sought-after job, and by taking one, you are doing your part in "Border Security™"..(Every anglo who washes cars & does lawns, eliminates the need for a guest worker to come here for that job)

Fruits & vegetables are good for you, and as a fruit extraction engineer, you will have easy access to many nutritious foods, all day long.(be sure and wipe them off before you eat them as you pick them, though)

Even our former-president values manual labor, and he works in the great outdoors, cutting brush, as often as his busy schedule allows.

This is an opportunity... a challenge..a widening vista.. It's an adventure..so embrace it without fear.

Money is the root of all evil™, and downsizing is good for the soul. That big house you used to fret about, and struggle to keep the lawn mowed, and to keep the house maintained..? well fear not.. A nice tidy, personal-sized apartment is the wave of the future. You will be on the cutting edge of the "new way forward".

No more need for those wasteful gym memberships.. Take an apartment on the 3rd floor.. Who needs a Stair-master™ when you can climb those stairs for free? (add groceries and/or laundry, and think of the pounds you will lose)..

An apartment also has other advantages.. It will encourage those obnoxious kids to finally move out on their own. They can surely find a service job , and an apartment of their own.

Younger kids will thank you, since they will now get the opportunity to really get to know their siblings, by sharing a room, and by spending quality sibling-time as they prepare meals together and wait for you to come home from one of your jobs. They will be so happy to see you, and will hang on your every word, as you recount the vivid experiences of your day.

Apartments also are often conveniently located near medical services. When you look for your apartment, be sure to look for signs that advertise their services. They often say "Clinica Familia"..

Which brings me to the best part. Diversity.. You too can experience the excitement of living abroad as you downsize.. WITHOUT EVER HAVING TO LEAVE THE GOOD OLE US of A.

It's a well-known fact that the most recent immigrants to our country , tend to cluster in apartment-zones, so you can even learn a foreign language, and never have to pay high prices for those Berlitz™ tapes..

Apartments are also usually located near bus routes, so you can get rid of that pesky car, too. Your new service job providers will be happy to work with you to accommodate your new exciting schedule.

The transformation to the NEW Service Economization of America™ will be like nothing we have ever seen before, and you will be a pioneer on the brink of the future..

The New Sub-Middle Class™ is lean, and fit, and hungry for the New Success™ that awaits them.

Congratulations!.. You've esrned it !

[leftstreet]

19. ...

I remember when you posted that.

Brilliant and brutal.

:thumbsup: