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Recession far from over, we need jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs and more jobs

Every day, I listen to the media, the government, other people around me, tell me that this recession is almost done, we are on the upswing, and a bunch of other bullshit.  Well, to me, and I am no economist, the following stats seem to contradict that.  According to State of California, Employment Development Department, better known as 'the Unemployment Office' reported on March 26, 2010 that Feb unemployment rate stayed the same at 12.5% for the state, the same as it was in Jan of this year.  Guess what people, December 2009 was 12.2%.  Seems the "up" is heading the wrong direction.

Now this one is going to kill you.  In 2008, EDD paid out 8.1 BILLION aka 8 billion 100 million aka ($8,100,000,000.00) dollars to unemployed Californians setting a state record.  But...... in 2009, EDD set yet another record when it paid out, you ready for this, 20.2 BILLION aka 20 billion 200 million aka ($20,200,000,000.00) dollars to unemployed Californians.  That works out to about $80 million dollars A DAY for the year.  California has 1.4 million people out of work in Nov 2009.

I don't know a lot about economics and how to run a government, or how to report the news, but clearly, we need to start being told the truth on a much larger scale.

Sources of information: State of California, EDD website