Labor Secretary Hilda Solis (Dept. of Labor photo)
(CNSNews.com) - Seventy-three percent of the new civilian jobs
created in the United States over the last five months are in
government, according to official data published by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. In June, a total of 142,415,000 people were employed in the U.S,
according to the BLS, including 19,938,000 who were employed by federal,
state and local governments. By November, according to data BLS released today, the total number of people employed had climbed to 143,262,000, an overall increase of 847,000 in the six months since June.
President Barack Obama is demanding more than $1 trillion in new
spending as part of a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff,
according to a top Republican Senator.
Salon magazine this afternoon is asking the silly question, Why can Limbaugh speak, but not Costas?
It is Rush Limbaugh who is banned from speaking, not Bob Costas. Salon’s
David Sirota has a long introduction to his argument (which you can
read here) that boils down to this:
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