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Bikini Graph time! Unemployment rate drops to 5.9%, lowest since ’08 #BlameObama

Hey kids, guess what time it is! It’s job creation time! Which means it's time to bring back that sexy economic data source, the Bikini Graph! In this episode, we learn that the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9%, the lowest it's been since July 2008. That sound you hear is the GOP demanding President Obama's impeachment for allowing this to happen on his watch. Jobsghazi!!!! As always, red columns point to monthly job totals under the Bush administration, while blue columns point to job totals under the Obama administration: Via Steve Benen at The Maddow Blog, here's more on the new [...]

By nicolesandler|October 3rd, 2014|Tags: bikini graph, chart, economic growth, economic recovery, economy, graph, job creation, President Obama, unemployment|Comments Off

“All the leading indicators for the job market look good.” #BlameObama

Because we all trust Fox more than any source on earth, here is some upbeat news that is being overlooked today... directly from Fox Biz: Payroll processor ADP reports the private sector added 213,000 jobs in September, more than the 210,000 jobs Wall Street anticipated. Here's more info, this time from a major member of the dreaded "librul media," the Los Angeles Times: The private sector added 213,000 net new jobs last month, indicating that the labor market rebounded after a disappointing August, payroll firm Automatic Data Processing said Wednesday. The September job growth was an improvement from ADP's figure [...]

By nicolesandler|October 1st, 2014|Tags: blame Obama, good news, job market, jobless claims, jobs, unemployment, unemployment benefits|1 Comment

Weekly jobless claims fall… again #BlameObama

Via David Horsey Oh how I love to use the #BlameObama hashtag to annoy trolls. Of course it goes without saying that President Obama isn't personally responsible for all economic events---good or bad--- including jobs reports. But since Republicans insist on blaming him for everything under the sun, why not hop on the bandwagon? And with that, here it is, directly from an email alert from none other than Fox Biz, the most trusted name ever, some upbeat employment numbers: The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits fell last week to 280,000 from an initially reported 315,000 the week [...]

By nicolesandler|September 18th, 2014|Tags: blame Obama, good news, job market, jobless claims, jobs, unemployment, unemployment benefits|7 Comments

Next Up: The Locusts!

For mid-week in August, with the President and Congress on vacation, it's a pretty damned busy news day. Yesterday, during the lull between my show here at Radio or Not, and my fill-in stint for Randi Rhodes, an earthquake hit, centered in Virginia and felt in 22 states - quite strongly in Washington DC and New York City! Having lived in Los Angeles for 14 years, I'm an earthquake veteran. Having lived through the big '94 Northridge quake, I can talk earthquakes with the best of them! I'm also a hurricane survivor. Although I was living in LA at the [...]

By nicolesandler|August 24th, 2011|Tags: 99ers, earthquake, hurricane, jobs, Libya, progressive, unemployment|Comments Off

Satan Sandwich With A Side of Hypocrisy

As detailed in my last post, the House voted yesterday to pass the Satan Sandwich (aka the debt ceiling bill). We already knew the Tea Partiers were ignorant fools. Now they're also proven hypocrites, as 59 GOP freshmen voted for the bill (2/3 of the rookie class) with only 28 voting against. Based on Michele Bachmann's official list of members of her Tea Party Caucus, 32 of them declared their hypocrisy and voted for the deal! (Should you care to see the list, scroll down to the bottom of the post.) I must point out that my sorry excuse for [...]

By nicolesandler|August 2nd, 2011|Tags: 99ers, Arthur Delaney, debt ceiling, FAA, GottaLaff, Steve Benen, unemployment|Comments Off

And Glenn Beck is Still Out of his Fucking Mind

It's another busy Tuesday! Keith Olbermann's headed to Current TV. DLC will fold. No one's leaving Tahrir Square. The House is back in session today, for a few hours anyway. And Glenn Beck is still out of his fucking mind. Those stories and more on today's Nicole Sander Show! Seriously... We started with another call to my new friend in Egypt. Marwa Rakha joined us on Thursday, and I called her again this morning for an update on the mood in Egypt. The reasons behind the uprising in Egypt are present here in the US as well. We have an [...]

By nicolesandler|February 8th, 2011|Tags: 99ers, Egypt, keith olbermann, unemployment|Comments Off

This Week in Weirdness

So far, 2011 has been a strange year. And this week might just win the weirdness award. Let's recap... Keith Olbermann suddenly departs MSNBC (on the first anniversary of the end of Air America and the Supreme Court ruling overturning 100 years of law in the Citizens United v FEC case); the President adopts GOP themes in his State of the Union address, including tort reform and lowering corporate taxes; cross-aisle dates for the SOTU; and the strangest of strange: Dennis Kucinich sues the House cafeteria over an olive pit in his veggie wrap. That's all not to mention the [...]

By nicolesandler|January 27th, 2011|Tags: 99ers, Bachmann, batshit crazy, David Swanson, end the wars, Fugelsang, peace, unemployment|Comments Off

DC Date Night

Who will your Congressional representatives will be sitting with tonight? Methinks that more attention will be focused on who is sitting with whom than what President Obama is saying as he delivers his State of the Union address tonight. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing... Although I don't expect any great revelations from our president, I am heartened to learn that he will not endorse the idea of raising the age for Social Security or making cuts to Medicare, as his "deficit commission" recommended. We can expect lots of moving forward (lean forward?) talk. Perhaps those are the words [...]

By nicolesandler|January 25th, 2011|Tags: 99ers, Bradley Manning, keith olbermann, MSNBC, unemployment, wikileaks|3 Comments

99ers are People Too

When we refer to the growing group of people who've exhausted their unemployment benefits as 99ers, it makes it all too easy to remember that they are actual human beings rather than just statistics. I started the helpthe99ers.com website after speaking with a few of those actual people while guest-hosting The Randi Rhodes Show over the holidays. One of the first to post when I started the site was Bud Myers, an unemployed casino bartender in Las Vegas. Here's what he posted originally: I'm a 55 year old male and have worked since I was 14 – but I was [...]

By nicolesandler|January 17th, 2011|Tags: 99ers, Bud Meyers, Tier 6, unemployed, unemployment|3 Comments

We’ve Come A Long Way Baby, or Have We?

This afternoon on The Randi Rhodes Show, I'll be joined by a couple of guests who'll reflect on the progress made in 2010 by the LGBT community and women. The unflinching activism of the group GetEqual is widely credited for making the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell a reality. Heather Cronk, managing director of GetEqual will join us to talk about how they got it done, and what's next. What strides have women made this year? We're on the cusp of 2011, and still don't have an Equal Rights Amendment. But we do have a third woman on the [...]

By nicolesandler|December 28th, 2010|Tags: 99ers, Amy Simon, DADT, DOMA, ENDA, GetEqual, LGBT, She's HIstory, unemployment|Comments Off

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