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==Stimulus edges [[Unemployment]] higher==

==Stimulus edges [[Unemployment]] higher==

[[File:Unemployment Rate August 2010.JPG|200px|right|thumb|Unemployment rises to 9.6% after the President promised it would not go above 8%.]]

[[File:Unemployment Rate August 2010.JPG|200px|right|thumb|Unemployment rises to 9.6% after the President promised it would not go above 8%.]][[File:Hunger in America.jpg|left|125px|thumb|The current state of the [[economy]] recalls worries of a not too distant past. ]]

The '''[[U.S. Labor Department]]''' reported '''[[Unemployment]]''' rose in the ‘'''Summer of Recovery'''’ to 9.6%, or 14,900,000 workers. '''[[President Obama]]''', rested up from an extended vacation just prior to the long [[Labor Day]] holiday weekend, called the results "positive;"<ref>http://www.wbur.org/2010/09/03/unemployment-rate-2</ref> [[Wall Street]] rallied on the bad news. According to the ''[[New York Times]]'', [[Democrat]]s and President Obama received 70 percent of all campaign contributions from Wall Street<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/business/31sorkin.html</ref> in [[United States Presidential Election, 2008|2008 elections]].  

The [[U.S. Labor Department]] reported [[Unemployment]] rose in the Summer of Recovery to 9.6%, or 14,900,000 workers. [[President Obama]] called the results "positive"<ref>http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/09/03/president-obama-august-jobs-numbers-positive-news-not-nearly-good-enough Retrieved from whitehouse.gov</ref> and [[Wall Street]] rallied to record levels on the bad news. The ''[[New York Times]]'' has reported 70 percent of all campaign contributions from Wall Street<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/business/31sorkin.html</ref> in [[United States Presidential Election, 2008|2008 elections]] went to President Obama and the [[Democrat]]s.

Key administartion advisers [[Rahm Emanuel]], [[Larry Summers]], Peter Orzag, Christina Romer and James Jones all announced thier departures just before the abysmal performance of President Obama's record became public.  3,200,000 despairing workers have lost thier jobs since the President's economic stimulus became law. The [[Democrat]]ic controlled Congress acted with the assurance Unemployment would never reach above 7.8%.

Dr. Christina Romer, who last year asserted the [[Economic stimulus]] would stop Unemployment from rising above 7.8%, cleaned out her desk and resigned from the President's Council of Economic Advisers the same day the recent Jobs Report was released. Since the Stimulus became Law, an additional 3,200,000 jobs have been lost.

The total number of lives affected by Unemployment since the [[110th Congress]] when the [[Recession]] began is well above the constant 15,000,000 unemployed reported. As roughly 2,000,000 newly unemployed enter the jobless ranks monthly, and another 2,000,000 finding jobs are rotated out, the cummulative effect means over 30 million people have directly suffered unemployment.

[[File:Krdo13.jpg||175px|left|thumb|[[Obamaville]]'s have sprouted up across the United States during President Obama's tenure of office.]][[File:Total Unemployed.jpg|200px|right|thumb|]]

[[File:Total workforce.JPG|200px|right|thumb|The workforce shrunk nearly 400,000 jobs during Recovery Summer.]]

By September 2010, nineteen months into the Stimulus, the Labor Dept claimed the number of "marginally attached"<ref>http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm</ref> underemployed (part time workers seeking full time work and workers taking employment beneath their skill set) reached over 2,800,000 persons (18.2% of the workforce<ref>http://townhall.com/columnists/RichGalen/2010/10/29/relapse_summer</ref>), up from 2,200,000 in President Obama's first year.

The total number of lives affected by Unemployment since December 2007 when the [[Recession]] began is well above the constant 15,000,000 unemployed reported. As roughly 2,000,000 newly unemployed enter the jobless ranks monthly and another 2,000,000 finding jobs are rotated out, the cumulative effect over 30 months is an additional  30 million plus who have been directly affected by unemployment.

Among the marginally attached, there were 1,200,000 discouraged workers, an increase of 503,000 since Obama's first year in office. Discouraged workers are defined as persons who have lost [[hope]] of finding work because they believe no jobs are available.  

[[File:Median-longterm-unemployment.JPG|200px|right|thumb|Workers endure twice the length of Unemployment more than the past half century.]]

By August 2010, eighteen months into the Stimulus, the Labor Dept claimed the number of "marginally attached" underemployed (part time workers seeking full time work and workers taking employment beneath their skill set) reached 16.7% of the workforce.

The length of time a worker is Unemployed is ''more than twice'' as long as any time in the last 50 years.

And the workforce continued to shrink.

And the workforce continued to shrink.