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Title: Trouble in Fall 2009? College Graduates can't find Jobs; States Raising Taxes; Marriage Decline View count: 5085 Rating: 4.962567 (187 ratings) Description: Japans Prime Minister announced a 15.4 Trillion Yen Economic Stimulus Package •$154 billion http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aP7_fW3Kogpc&refer=home More States Look to Raise Taxes •Tax revenue is plummeting nationwide and states are responding with even more taxes http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123923448796803135.html http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/putting-a-months-job-losses-in-perspective/ US FED: FOMC Downgraded its GDP Projection For 2009, 2010 •Federal Open Market Committees new forecast is •GDP between -1.3% and -0.5% in 2009 (my prediction •2.5% and 3.3% in 2010 •also downgraded their projections for the unemployment forecast by saying it would increase sharply in the first half and flatten out in the second half http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/04/08/afx6271000.html Obama to Push Immigration Bill Despite the Risks •Obama will make a push to reform immigration •Start talking about creating a pathway for illegal immigrations to become citizens. •Although there will not a major push for immigration reform until the economic crisis is resolved http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/us/politics/09immig.html?_r=1&hp Laid-off U.S. workers finding new jobs, less pay •Half of U.S. workers laid off in the past year who were questioned in a survey reported finding new jobs, but often with less pay and in a different field. http://uk.reuters.com/article/burningIssues/idUKTRE5378NV20090408 Poll: Fewer Americans support stricter gun control laws •according to Gallup polling, 54 percent favored stricter laws in 2001 •50 percent in 2007 •Now, a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll reveals a sudden drop -- only 39 percent of Americans now favor stricter gun laws •*That number is going to get lower. •*its no longer a liberal/conservative issue •Thats why you have liberal Democrats like vention4wh are armed and people like myself who previously had no exposure to guns are buying guns. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/08/gun.control.poll/index.html Out-of-wedlock births hit record high *let me just say this, marriage as an institute is coming to an end http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/08/out.of.wedlock.births/index.html Tags: civil, unrest, marriage, rate, declining, panicking, divorce, courts, stricter, gun, control, laws, laid, off, workers, find, new, less, pay, obama, immigration, gdp, gross, domestic, product, raise, taxes, revenue, riots, laid-off, u.s., raised, recession, michigan, alaska, economic, collapse, depression, reginald, ketchikan, bubba008009, george4title, feveriam, uroutoftime, visionvictory, manoftruth, Author: DEMCAD |
