April 2011

The national unemployment rate has dipped below 9%.  It now stands at 8.8%.  See Workplace Prof report.  This decrease represents a trend of continued, slight improvement over several months.  There still remains many long-term unemployed workers.  Unemployment benefit claims have dropped.  So, we are experiencing slight improvement for a few months, now. 

 So, Rev. Terry Jones finally did burn a Quran at his Florida church just a couple of weeks ago.  Now, Afghanistan is rioting and has killed several United Nations workers – only because this particular mob could not find any Americans handy.  Reports are that the Afghans will attack US bases.  No kidding.  I wish…