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Got this little tidbit from the EEOC this morning at work. New guidelines could keep employers from digging into someone’s past. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is changing the way companies use criminal background checks to weed out new hires. The change comes as most employers are increasing their use of background checks to find [...]

See if these two maps seem to have a running theme.  First, Map 1.  No titles, no labels, just ten pins: If that doesn’t seem clear enough, try this one: That is the ten richest counties in the USA according to the 2010 census.  What do you think the odds are that five of them [...]

While employment still failed to gain any traction, businesses increased their inventories and invested in infrastructure.  Usually when businesses invest heavily, you get employment.  This time however, it all came from overseas by way of imports, which surged 28%. The reason is simple, it’s so much cheaper to buy overseas than it is to try [...]

A few months or so ago, Obama hit the beach and started delivering his “economy is recovering, but not enough” message. Some think this was in response to the rather catastrophic forecast of the first Tuesday in November. Personally, I do. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Simple message, hard to debate. The message then was that [...]

Fresh on the surprise pounding Obama’s candidate took in Massachusetts, Obama unleashed his fury on banks, again.  Apparently the message wasn’t received.  I thought it was funny when Robert Gibbs blamed Coakley’s loss on George W. Bush.  Now it just seems pathetic.  Here’s a clue, it’s a simple one, but apparently not one Obama and [...]

President Obama has decided the unemployment situation is bad.  He has a point.  It’s now as bad as it was when Reagan fixed Carter’s mess.  So, he decided to have a get-together with minds that he thinks will fix the problem.  Now, in my relatively simple world, the best way to cure unemployment is to [...]

Representative Keith Ellison submitted this letter to The Hill blogs: We have to consider the 30 years of stagnant wages that your average Americans have had to face. That fact is that the reason we have people refinancing their homes, getting home equity loans, getting high rate interest credit cards and petty loans is because [...]

Nancy Pelosi had this to say about the $22 billion difference between Congress and the White House budgets: …..Democrats want to work with the president “to negotiate the very small difference between Democrats and Republicans on these appropriations bills.“ I’m still waiting for CBS and the rest to lambast her for her obvious fiscal irresponsibility. [...]

Democrats chided Bush the first few years he was in office as a reckless spender.  Then the economy took off and they sorta dropped it in favor of "taxing the poor and giving big tax breaks to the rich".  The never really got much traction either.  So, Ted Kennedy is pulling out the mother of [...]