Of course I would look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics! They give all the rules and information around this topic, don’t they? This site essentially provides the true unemployment numbers at this time and breaks the numbers down into gender, age, race, region...Etc... It also tells you how you can qualify to receive unemployment benefits. Come to this site if you want to get the statistics for unemployment.
When beginning this blog I went straight to my dad, the only person I know who can talk politics to a wall if he wanted. He directed me to this website and it ended up being a wonderful way to get both unbiased AND biased info to help me brainstorm what I wanted to discuss in my posts. Most of the searches bring up several articles that show both a Conservative viewpoint, as well as a Democratic one. I encourage anyone who visits this site to explore it and look for unemployment articles or any other articles for that matter.
This link that I attached was a good starting point when it came to my understanding on where unemployment actually stood in the midterm elections. It gave me valuable info about the status of our economy and the affects that unemployment and the distribution of money has on it.
Although from the same website, this new link gave me some good insight on why unemployment benefits should be extended. The extension of unemployment benefits is a large part of my topic and caused a lot of debate. This link tells you why they should be extended, including that fact that people need to support their families in this time of need, and if they receive money (as long as they can prove that they are looking for jobs and unable to get hired) they can spend it immediately and pump it through our economy.
This link helped me determine what drove the unemployment rates to such extreme levels. It focuses on how the companies stopped hiring and expanding once the recession hit; causing less jobs, less spending, and less money flow into our economy.
This link gave me some pretty useful information on how many jobs were actually lost in the month before we started our blog project. It discusses how we are not just losing jobs, but we are not gaining enough in the private sector to make up for those that were lost in the first place. It also talks about about the differences in job losses from government sectors and private sectors.
Another money.cnn.com article that helped a lot was the one in the link above. This is where I found out the majority of my information of the Bush Tax Cuts. It talks about what they are, when they are supposed to expire, what will happen if they are/aren’t extended, what each party thinks should be done, who will receive the tax cuts..Etc... Of course I could not receive all my information on the tax cuts from this one link, it did give me a good understanding of the basis.
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