Are We Entering a Jobless Recovery?

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In this economy you want to keep track of the purchases you make everywhere. My family and I use the iPhone app, Purchases Tracker, to take control of our spending and cash flow. It helped us to cut out those purchases that we did not realize we were making.

Richard of CT 12:40PM May 07, 2012

Retraining is not the answer.
Neither is education for that matter.
The solution to the economic problem is to share profits with the workers who actually create the wealth. Then, corporations should get a tax credit for their generosity.
There is no reason corporations cannot share at least 20% of net profits with workers. It is a re-investment into their own company. Business and industry should get a tax break only, however, if they participate in the voluntary tax credit. Everyone wins. It is both a liberal and a conservative solution.
When more households have more money to buy "stuff", demand will grow, and jobs will return.
See the 10 reasons why at www.profitsharinguprising.com

Darian L Smith of NC 2:40PM May 04, 2012

Your leaders are millionaires and have become so by entering into back room deals aimed at monumental transfers of wealth at your expense. They have elevated themselves to levels of wealth that insulate them from the realities of a dying global middle class. Even now you can find abundant information regarding their investment of wealth into commodities to protect it from the inevitable collapse of paper currencies. The predicament they have created is no longer fixable. They have succeeded in creating a two class global society. The concerns of your children will not be retirement, successful careers or technological advancement. Their concerns will their next meal, staying warm and staying alive. Welcome to the beginning of the end.

The Nothing 11:48AM February 20, 2012

This is really scary. I never thought that less than 30% have college degrees. This whole economic downturn has left me wondering waht to do in the future. I assumed attending college will increase my income, however, the statistics are staggering. I hope that I made the right decision.

Jeff Tillman of FL 4:03PM January 18, 2012

Where there are any good opportunities, it is inevitable that businessmen will have their lackeys in Congress open the floodgates to immigrants, so that one is likely to waste much time and money in an education only to find the field that once looked promising is later glutted. Such is the nature today of pouring historic levels of immigrants into glutted job markets. Listen to 1%ers like Zuckerman talking about the need for keeping foreign graduates in the US and immigration. "http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/070527/4edit_2.htm
So looking forward, we will need more rather than less migration at both the low end and the high end of the skill sets." Great for the 1% to have hundreds of applicants for every job and ever decreasing wages, but doesn't encourage one to pursue higher education.

Luther of LA 11:35PM January 17, 2012

The preaching for obtaining degrees is obnoxious. If people cannot work they cannot pay for degrees...mommy and daddy died years ago.
Offer classes which put people to work immediately and let them slowly gain the new experience necessary to grow into positions. This means that a manual laborer need not take English and macrame to complete a degree...this is why a degree often costs so much that the cost of the degree cannot be paid for.
Targeted training and education is the only way an older worker can grow into a new position.

F. Bacon of MI 11:01AM January 17, 2012