Politics and Religion
Annual unemployment insurance exhaustion rate at highest level in 60 years
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Snapshot for September 22, 2004
Last year, 43.4% of people who began receiving state unemployment benefits ended up exhausting all the benefits to which they were entitled without finding a job.* This exhaustion rate is the highest rate since 1941, and it exceeds the 38.5% rate for 1982 when the unemployment rate was over 10%.
A major reason for the high UI exhaustion rate in 2003 is the lack of job creation that characterized the economic recovery in 2003. In 2003, the share of the unemployed who had been seeking work for six months or more was 22.1%, the second highest share on record. These data clearly indicate that the UI program failed to provide an adequate safety net for millions of jobless workers in 2003.
* The "exhaustion rate" is the average monthly exhaustions divided by the average monthly first payments of UI benefits.
This Snapshot was written by EPI Research Director Lee Price and research assistant Sujan Vasavada.
so 3 years AFTER Bush takes office we finally see some areas of some SMALL wage increase, some areas a whole .1 % woooo hoooooo.
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"They haven't seen an increase since 2001 and this is the first year, in all four reports, that they showed an increase," Koncz says. "With the economy coming back, they are JUST STARTING to REGAIN the ground LOST in those two years."
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and reading further you see that
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"While that's good news for most graduates, some professions just haven't kept pace. On the down side, entry-level pay for industrial and manufacturing engineers eased (WENT DOWN) 2.2 percent..."
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most nations consider that kinda work the backbone of the economy, what your link really shows is that hard work and jobs that actually produce something have worsened, and that we've become a nation rewarding the paper/pencil pushers. Again, woooo hooooo 
And lastly, as mentioned by 'MrSelfDestruct', what does YOUR "data/post" have to do with disproving or debating my "data/post" ??????????
One's about UN-EMPLOYMENT and why the "REAL" un-employment numbers may NOT be as good as Bush's SPIN doctors try to make it. Many simply CAN NO LONGER GET IT ! ! ! so they CAN'T show up on the report's as an unemployed worker any longer. Yours is about Highly educated grad's getting a small bounce in starting wages, that is just beginning to adjust for 3 years of prior losses.
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PS. - I wonder why the increase to the English majors, couldn't be trying to figure out what the hell BUSH says half the time could it ? 
