Job openings flat, sign of slow hiring. Will White House sponsor an unemployment reduction summit?

[Karmadillo]

If there is really the hunger to do big things, like "strengthening" Social Security & Medicare, maybe they could take on other big things like putting Americans back to work.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2011-07-12-job-openings_n.htm

Job openings flat in May, a sign of slow hiring

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of U.S. job postings didn't increase in May, a sign that hiring is unlikely to pick up this summer.

Employers advertised 3 million job openings, the Labor Department said. That was the same amount as in April and down from 3.1 million in March.

May's figure is higher than the 2.1 million job openings posted in July 2009, one month after the recession ended and the lowest total since the government began recording the data a decade ago. But it is also significantly below the 4.4 million openings recorded in December 2007, when the recession began.

Companies can take anywhere from 1 to 3 months to fill a job opening. And there's heavy competition for each opening.

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[Ozymanithrax]

1. Is there a sufficient number of millionaires out of work...

to make it a good way of reducing the unemployment rate?

:sarcasm:

[MNBrewer]

2. Of course not

Everyone knows (at least in the Republican Party and, sadly, the White House) that cutting taxes will boost jobs, and cutting the deficit at the same time will be even BOOSTIER and the confidence fairy will come visit the unicorn that lives in the Rose Garden.

[amborin]

3. nah, it's pushing the Korean FTA, which will lose 169K more US jobs

[Enrique]

4. no, but they will tell us to get used to it

like Geithner just saying the bad times are going to go on for a long time.

[Brickbat]

5. Well, they've got that great Jobs Council, headed by the GE guy who was crazy about outsourcing,

that says they've found a way to create 2,000 jobs.

Two. Thousand.

HUZZAH!

[somone]

6. Free trade, tax cuts, war, and privatization will cure all ills

Unemployment is barely visible on this White House's radar

[jtown1123]

7. No. But you can be sure hosting another summit on bullying is at the top of their list

[Starry Messenger]

8. Why do you hate summit-organizing workers?

:sarcasm:

[Safetykitten]

9. Hi, Mr. Immelt here. reporting for coffee...urr...meetings!

[seabeckind]

10. Hah! Way ahead of you.

President's Jobs Council Says Workers Are The Reason They're Jobless

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1468999

It's all our fault we're not working.

[Karmadillo]

11. Kick.

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