Unemployment

Santelli Slams CNBC Panelists for Spinning Jobs Report

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 5:12 AM Feb 4th

CNBC's Rick Santelli criticized CNBC panelists for trying to find good news in a "disappointing" jobs report. "This is not great data," Santelli warned.

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Bachmann Takes Obama To Task Over High Unemployment, Obamacare, Gov’t Spending

Submitted by escheiner 9:58 AM Jan 26th

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) in response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday said Obama failed to deliver on his promise to keep unemployment under eight percent by spending a trillion dollars on the federal stimulus [...]

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Grassley Says Congress `Part' of U.S. Spending Problem

Submitted by Joe Schoffstall 9:40 AM Jan 7th

U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, discusses the outlook for today's testimony by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and the federal budget deficit. Grassley speaks from Washington with Betty Liu on Bloomberg Television's "In the [...]

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Diane Swonk Calls Drop to 9.4 Percent Unemployment an 'Anomaly'

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 6:15 AM Jan 7th

CNBC's Squawk Box panel reacted to the December 2010 jobs report with caution, especially regarding the 9.4 percent unemployment rate.

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MSNBC's Brewer: What If GOP Nixed Repeal of ObamaCare, Invested in Education of the Unemployed?

Submitted by mhadro 2:21 PM Jan 6th

During her Thursday 12 p.m. EST news hour, MSNBC's Contessa Brewer referenced a Congressional Budget Office report estimating the cost of the repeal of ObamaCare at $230 billion over ten years. She wondered what would happen to unemployment if Republicans [...]

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Rep. Mike Pence Explains His Opposition to Tax Cut Deal

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 11:59 AM Dec 20th

Mike Pence Tells America's Newsroom why He Voted Against The Tax Cut Bill.

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CNBC's Mark Haines: 'Disappointing' Jobs Dates Makes it 'Difficult' to Raise Taxes

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 5:27 AM Dec 3rd

MSNBC's "Morning Joe" brought Mark Haines of CNBC on to discuss the November 2010 jobs report Dec. 3. Haines said the rise in unemployment was disappointing and would make it difficult to increase taxes.

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Erin Burnett Overemphasized 'Fantastic' Job Gains

Submitted by JuliaSeymour 6:28 AM Nov 5th

CNBC's Erin Burnett told Morning Joe viewers that the 151,000 jobs gained in October were enough "to try to bring that rate down." But actually the jobs report showed there were still 14.8 million unemployed in October, as there had been in September.