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Unemployment falls below 10% in January
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that the unemployment rate fell to 9.7% in January with 20,000 jobs being lost. This would suggest that many people have given up looking for jobs and have left the workforce, or have gone back to school.
Let’s breakdown the numbers:
- The unemployment rate for high school drop outs was 15.2%.
- 4.9% of college graduates were unemployed.
- The jobless rate for high school graduates was 10.1%.
- 10.0% of men 20 and over were unemployed.
- Women 20 and over had an unemployment rate of 8.5%. up from 8.2% in December.
- 26.9% of 16 to 19 year olds were unemployed, down from 27.1% in December.
- Jobless rate amongst whites was 8.7%, down from 9.0% in December.
- 16.5% of blacks were jobless, up from 16.2% in December.
The unemployment rate of college graduates decreased from December. College graduates continue to enjoy the lowest unemployment rate of the listed groups.
Case-Schiller Index: First price drop in seven months
Home prices in the Top 20 Metropolitan Areas declined 0.2% in November, according to the Standard & Poor’s Case-Schiller Index. It was the first drop in seven months. The big winner was Phoenix with a 1.1% increase over October. The biggest loser in this current market downturn continues to be Las Vegas where prices are off 55.6% from their peak. Overall, home prices in the Top 20 Metropolitan Areas were down 29.2% from their collective peak .
Here’s a look at how the individual Top 20 Metropolitan Areas are performing:
- Phoenix: Up 1.1% over October, down 50.8% from their peak.
- Los Angeles: Up 0.8% over October, down 38.0% from their peak.
- San Diego: Up 0.4% over October, down 37.7% from their peak.
- San Francisco: Up 0.6% over October, down 37.4% from their peak.
- Denver: Down 0.5% over October, down 8.5% from their peak.
- Washington DC: Down 0.5% over October, down 28.6% their peak.
- Miami: Unchanged over October, down 46.9% from their peak.
- Tampa: Down 0.4% over October, down 41.3% from their peak.
- Atlanta: Down 0.8% over October, down 19.9% from their peak.
- Chicago: Down 1.1% over October, down 23.3% from their peak.
- Boston: Down 0.5% over October, down 15.6% from their peak.
- Detroit: Up 0.7% over October, down 42.9% from their peak.
- Minneapolis: Down 0.5% over October, down 27.6% from their peak.
- Charlotte: Down 0.3% over October, down 12.7% from their peak.
- Las Vegas: Down 0.5% over October, down 55.6% from their peak.
- New York: Down 1.0% over October, down 19.7% from their peak.
- Cleveland: Down 0.2% over October, down 15.2% from their peak.
- Portland: Up 0.3% over October, down 19.4% from their peak.
- Dallas: Unchanged over October, down 5.2% from their peak.
- Seattle: Down 0.5% over October, down 22.7% from their peak.
Persistent high unemployment and mortgage interest rate resets in 2010 will continue to put pressure on home prices.
K-Y Intense Arousal Gel: Unbelievably expensive!
Let me just start by saying my wife and I have never tried K-Y Intense Arousal Gel, but the reviews on Amazon are terrible. I was with my wife in Walgreens one day and I decided to wander around while she shopped for makeup. I noticed the high price on K-Y Intense Arousal Gel as I walked by it. Without going into graphic detail, K-Y Intense Arousal Gel is supposed to be used on the very most sensitive area of the female anatomy to help facilitate an orgasm. What shocked me even more was the size of the product-a mere 0.34 fluid ounces. K-Y Intense Arousal Gel has a suggested retail price of $29.95. Did you think that $4 per gallon gasoline was exorbitantly expensive? K-Y Intense Arousal Gel costs a mere, no joke, $11,275 per gallon! It’s always good to do the math before making a purchase, don’t you think?
Soda fountains contain fecal contamination, other bacteria
A study published in the January issue of International Journal of Food Microbiology found coliform bacteria, possibly from fecal contamination, in 48% of the soda fountains tested. More than 11% of the beverages analyzed contained E-coli and over 17% contained Chryseobacterium meningosepticum, among other bacteria. Most of the bacteria found in the tests showed resistance to one or more of the 11 antibiotics tested. The study concluded that “these findings have important public health implications and signal the need for regulations enforcing hygienic practices associated with these beverage dispensers.”
How fecal material came in contact with these machines is something that I don’t even want to think about.
