Right to Work Crushing Florida’s Construction Job Market
The association's study also mentioned the 11,600 construction jobs lost in Florida over the past year, which the Business Journal previously published Friday, when a report showed the state's unemployment rate had dropped to 10 percent in October from 10.7 percent in September. Construction led the industry groups in terms of jobless, with government finishing second worst, down 8,600 jobs.
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/blog/2011/11/florida-is-second-worst-for.html
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State of the Union Speech: Two Useful Reads
President Obama warned the nation Tuesday that the decades-old promise of a secure and rising middle class is under threat because of growing disparities between the rich and everyone else in America.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-state-of-the-union-obama-expected-to-warn-that-middle-class-threatened-by-economic-unfairness/2012/01/24/gIQAQ3vROQ_print.html
President Obama made no mention in his State of the Union address Tuesday of his decision to reject the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline or the federal loan guarantee to failed solar firm Solyndra.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/206343-obama-speech-steers-clear-of-keystone-rejection-solyndra