October Unemployment Report
The “real” unemployment or U-6 rate is 14.6 percent for October 2012. This is the total percentage of unemployed and underemployed workers.
The “real” unemployment or U-6 rate is 14.6 percent for October 2012. This is the total percentage of unemployed and underemployed workers.
In Montana and in my home state of Wyoming we know how important coal is to growing America’s economy. Coal provides affordable, reliable energy and good jobs.
President Obama and other Democrats in Washington should embrace this American energy source and look for ways to expand its production. Instead, they have been trying to shut down America’s coal industry.
President Obama knows that the Medicare program is on a swift path to bankruptcy. He admits it. Instead of proposing bipartisan solutions that reform and strengthen Medicare, the President chooses to do nothing.
Right now U.S. companies that also do business overseas have $1.7 trillion parked outside the U.S. The reason they're not bringing it home to invest in America is that they'll have to pay taxes on the money a second time. Bringing that money back into the country could lead to five million more U.S. jobs.