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Lay off more garbage collectors immediately so as to fix this:
The Labor Department says weekly applications rose by 11,000 to a seasonally adjusted 428,000.
The week included the Labor Day holiday. Applications typically drop during short work weeks. In this case, applications didn’t drop as much as the department expected, so the seasonally adjusted value rose. A Labor spokesman says the total wasn’t affected by Hurricane Irene.
Still, applications appear to be trending up. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, rose for the fourth straight week to 419,500.
After all, isn’t that how “austerity” works?
Meanwhile, up the road a piece.
The city’s (Philadephia–ed.) ability to help families without homes is getting weaker.
“The city is very blatantly turning away folks,” said Marsha Cohen, a lawyer for the Homeless Advocacy Project, which provides free legal help to individuals without homes. “It’s never been like this.”
Bushonomics has made homelessness a growth industry. Cities can’t supply the necessary infrastructure to support it.
Meanwhile, J. M. Ashby sums up the Republican position:
This would transform the bill into a self-fulfilling prophecy of a “second failed stimulus.”
. . . There is absolutely no element of good-faith at work on the conservative side of the aisle. They aren’t interested in your jobs. Only their jobs.
