Here's
something else for Bush to run on:
More than 2,400 employers across the country reported laying off 50 or more workers in January, the third-highest number of so-called mass layoffs since the government became tracking them a decade ago.
Only in December 2000 and December 2002 were the number of large layoffs higher. A total of 239,454 workers lost their jobs in the January layoffs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday, based on unemployment insurance claims filed with state employment agencies. Among them were 17,544 temporary workers.
The Moonie Times had an even
harsher spin on the numbers:
There were more mass layoffs in January in the United States than in any previous January for the nine-years that such records have been kept.
The hardest hit states -- California, New York, Michigan and Pennsylvania.