Alison Lundergan Grimes trails Mitch McConnell by just 4 points PPP’s second Kentucky poll of the cycle paints a very similar picture to their first: Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is in weak shape for reelection. McConnell sports a 36-54 job approval rating, virtually unchanged from his 37-55 score in December. He’s also slipped… Read more »
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Four AP Reporters Make Excuses, All Unacceptable, for Weak March Jobs Report
After telling the world on Thursday that "Gone are the fears that the economy could fall into another recession," it seems that the Associated Press's Christopher Rugaber needed some help explaining away Friday's weak jobs report from the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The AP had four reporters on Friday evening's coverage, all seemingly in… Read more »
It’s a bad time to be a worker who isn’t flexible. But does that explain the weak job market?
We’re approaching the four year anniversary of the economic recovery, and it still doesn’t feel like much of one, what with the unemployment rate at 7.7 percent and wages stagnant over the last half a decade. Various economists have gone to extensive efforts to ask whether this weak labor market is driven by not by… Read more »
Schadenfreude-licious! Palin-obsessed Tina Fey’s ‘Admission’ weak at box office; Twitter confirms ‘it sucked’
Heh. Tina Fey recently exposed that Sarah Palin is still living rent-free in her head when she revived her Palin schtick on “Inside the Actor’s Studio.” Bless her heart. Perhaps she should try to focus more on her own career instead of desperately (and bitterly) clinging to Palin-bashing? Yikes, the Tina Fey/Paul Rudd low-budget comedy… Read more »