2012-02-22 / Opinion

America’s lingering, looming employment problem

By Howard Rich
Earlier this month the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that America’s unemployment rate fell from 8.5 percent in December to 8.3 percent in January — its fifth consecutive monthly decline. The agency also estimated that the U.S.

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