Monday, October 5, 2009

Got to say it one more time "America can't recover without jobs."

The Washington Blog,

Monday, October 5, 2009
U.S. Suffering Permanent Destruction of Jobs


America is suffering a permanent destruction of jobs.

JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Economist Bruce Kasman told Bloomberg:


[We've had a] permanent destruction of hundreds of thousands of jobs in industries from housing to finance.
The chief economists for Wells Fargo Securities, John Silvia, says:


Companies “really have diminished their willingness to hire labor for any production level,” Silvia said. “It’s really a strategic change,” where companies will be keeping fewer employees for any particular level of sales, in good times and bad, he said.

And David Rosenberg writes:


The number of people not on temporary layoff surged 220,000 in August and the level continues to reach new highs, now at 8.1 million. This accounts for 53.9% of the unemployed — again a record high — and this is a proxy for permanent job loss, in other words, these jobs are not coming back. Against that backdrop, the number of people who have been looking for a job for at least six months with no success rose a further half-percent in August, to stand at 5 million — the long-term unemployed now represent a record 33% of the total pool of joblessness.