Letters at 3AM

We may come to regret there are so few intelligent conservative voices making themselves heard

"...million in federal stimulus money that would expand state unemployment benefits. ... Perry's decision comes despite warnings from Texas..."

March 27, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Big Tex Budget Blues

The money debate begins: 'Every Texan for himself' vs. 'All in this together'

"...revenues, a tax base overdue for effective reform, rising unemployment, falling health-insurance coverage, crumbling infrastructure, and agencies in urgent..."

Feb. 6, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Bernanke Speaks

The Fed chairman visits, and the news is very mixed

"...automobile industry (admittedly not quite his bailiwick) and mentioned unemployment only statistically, as another dire economic marker that has..."

Dec. 5, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Austin Area Economy Better Than TX, National

Austin-Round Rock area adding jobs, but jobless stats rise slightly

"...figures, the Austin area is adding jobs, but the unemployment rate is also rising...."

June 20, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report

The Toxic Corruption of Our Political System; and Herbert Hoover Revisited

"...jobs were lost last month and boasting that the unemployment rate was still at 5%...."

May 30, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

"...a report by the Texas Workforce Commission. The Austin unemployment rate went from 3.7% in Septem­ber to 3.3% in..."

Nov. 23, 2007 News Feature

Lights in the Dusk

How does one say “cherchez la femme” in Finnish?

"...films in the trilogy (Drifting Clouds, which looks at unemployment, and Man Without a Past, whose focus is homelessness),..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Experience Trumps Theory

"...predicted by Republicans, the economy recovered and we got unemployment below what classical economics thought was possible without inflation...."

June 15, 2007 Postmarks

Factotum

Charles Bukowski's Henry Chinaski is back, played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance; it's 100-proof Bukowski, but with a decent barkeep at the helm and Lili Taylor's Jan on his arm. Factotum, for all its grim grind, is funny-serious and smart-stupid.

"...gutter, is a dead giveaway), it's back to the unemployment line. Noble savagery of this sort could get awfully..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

FEMA's Flood Tide

One stroke forward, two strokes back – hurricane victims tread rising bureaucratic waters

"...February 4, the Louisiana Department of Labor was sending unemployment benefits to about 32,520 displaced workers with addresses in..."

Feb. 24, 2006 News Feature by Cheryl Smith

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Our readers talk back.

"...outsource many state services to a private vendor, including unemployment services (www.dir.state.tx.us/datacenter/index.htm). While the perception of many is that..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Column

Say No to Privatization!

"...outsource many state services to a private vendor, including unemployment services (www.dir.state.tx.us/datacenter/index.htm). While the perception of many is that..."

Jan. 23, 2006 Postmarks

Quality of Life for Blacks in Austin: Going Beyond Midtown

The city's treatment of blacks – both governmentally and culturally – is questioned

"...blacks in Austin enjoy one of the nation's lowest unemployment rates and one of the nation's highest rates of..."

April 1, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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Our readers talk back.

"...[ ] Unemployment reaches 15%...."

Nov. 5, 2004 Column

Handy List for Next Four Years

"...trillion. [ ] Deficit tops $20 trillion. [ ] Unemployment reaches 15%. [ ] Unemployment reaches 25%. [ ]..."

Nov. 3, 2004 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

Dubya paints rosy pictures of the war and job creation … and on both, he's lying

"...Wait, cries Bush, look at the September unemployment rate – only 5.4%! Another rosy number, but another..."

Oct. 29, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

"...doing their small but crucial part to lower the unemployment rate from 5.9% to 5.7%. Simultaneously, the feds lowered..."

Jan. 16, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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"...We must remember that as people's unemployment benefits expire, they no longer exist in the unemployment..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Column

Long-Time Unemployed Go Invisible, Skewing Numbers

"...statistical numbers game. We must remember that as people's unemployment benefits expire, they no longer exist in the unemployment..."

Nov. 24, 2003 Postmarks

Naked City

News items from near and far

"...The state's unemployment rate reached 6% in July, higher than the national..."

Aug. 23, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Region/State/Etc.

"...created a Web site, www.laidoffworkers.org, to help you survive unemployment. Among the many noteworthy features are links to info..."

July 26, 2002 News Feature

Naked City

The "AA-S' Chastity Patrol

"...the Statesman business section reported that the Central Texas unemployment rate had reached 5.4%, the worst since June 1990...."

March 1, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

The Wash

"...artistic standards are keeping countless Hollywood hacks off the unemployment rolls. Next time, Pooh, why not do the work..."

Nov. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Naked City

What's hot and what's not in these economic times

"...last week the Texas Workforce Commission reported that state unemployment has increased to 4.9%. Even Fort Worth's wealthy Bass..."

Sept. 28, 2001 News Feature

No Commitment Necessary

As the economy takes a dive, many high tech workers find themselves stuck on the temping treadmill

"...at Motorola a few weeks before that. Even with unemployment numbers still below 5%, many temps are starting go..."

March 9, 2001 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Technical Difficulties

Older professionals face a hard choice: leave Austin or go tech?

"...Life in Unemployment Limbo People stranded in unemployment limbo usually don't want..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Better Living Through Porno

... or What I Learned as an Adult Industry Worker

"...The six months of unemployment had taken its toll. I had become a talk-show..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Features Feature by Kelly Petrash

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...spoke directly to the issues afflicting their native land: unemployment, racism, police oppression, the dole, drugs, war, corruption, and..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Carrying the Burden

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

"...centers blossom all over the Central Texas area while unemployment is at an all-time low, 2.6%. Austin's "Smart Growth"..."

April 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Marius and Jeannette

"...faking a limp. This is the Marseilles of vast unemployment, of crumbling factories and urban decay, yet in its..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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