Again, why are Democrats tolerating the GOP obstructionists who brought us to this recession? Their economic model has failed. Completely. They had their time and they blew it and the American voters chose a new path.
Rising unemployment spared no state last month, and 2009 is shaping up as another miserable year for workers from coast to coast.
Jobless rates for December hit double digits in Michigan and Rhode Island, while South Carolina and Indiana notched the biggest gains from the previous month, the Labor Department said Tuesday. A common thread among these states has been manufacturing industry layoffs tied to consumers' shrinking appetite for cars, furniture and other goods.
With tens of thousands of layoffs announced this week by well-known employers such as Pfizer Inc., Caterpillar Inc. and Home Depot Inc., the unemployment picture is bound to get worse in every region of the country, economists say.
"We won't see a light at the end of the tunnel until 2010," said Anthony Sabino, a professor of law and business at St. John's University.
