The official Texas unemployment rate held steady at 8.3 percent for the month of May, according to figures released Friday by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC). The only reason the unemployment rate didn't increase was due to a reduction of 48,000 in… more »

As has been reported the past week by ABC News and others, in the early days following the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, BP and the Obama Administration withheld videos from the public showing the massive scope of the oil spewing out fr… more »

The Gulf oil slick is perfectly symbolic of the ongoing castrophe that is the economy. It's a stinking mess that continues to wreck havoc on the American working class. Contrary to the Obama spin machine, things are not getting better for tens of million… more »

The official Texas unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent for the month of April, according to figures released today by the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC). At the same time, the highly political TWC managed to come up with some bizarre figures claiming… more »

It wasn't too long ago that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was ranting about the overbearing regulations of the EPA and the need to let the oil companies do their thing in the Gulf of Mexico. Well Bobby, look out your window and you can see your wish co… more »

Mexican President Felipe Calderon was in Washington, D.C. again to whine once more to the Obama Administration about U.S. immigration policy. Calderon should spend more time worrying about the racism, corruption, and economic squalor in Mexico that are t… more »

"The Great Oil Spill Disaster of 2010" is the latest version in the ongoing series of Congressional dog-and-pony shows staged in Washington, DC. The enablers and the enabled once again gather together for a political theater presentation that they hope w… more »

Mexicans come to America because Mexico is a corrupt, wretched, and violent place to live. But then they have the audacity to insist that Americans celebrate and embrace Mexican national holidays.Administrators at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill,… more »

The Obama Administration's analysis of the rise in the official April unemployment rate to 9.9 percent is just plain bullshit. There's no other way to describe it. Instead of addressing the fundamental structural flaws and inequalities of capitalism t… more »

Many unemployed Texans have found their way to this blog in search of information about unemployment benefit extensions available to them. Below is a C/P of information available in pdf format at the Texas Workforce Commission website:Help for UI Cla… more »