National economy & jobs

Once again, actual job growth last month fell short of economists' projections and was barely enough to keep up with new labor market entrants.

The Washington Post is running a series of articles about the struggles the middle class is facing as good jobs evaporate from the economy.

Jobs that provide both a middle-class wage and benefits, even for workers without advanced degrees, still exist, often in union environments. But they're getting harder to find.

More bad news on the trade front with the Chinese trade deficit exploding like an economic mushroom cloud. Like everybody else, I wonder, "how much longer can we really continue like this?" Will the economy continue to somehow manage to sput and sputter through this disastorous news until the next economic upswing or will it just suddenly come to a devestating halt when the gas finally runs dry? Enjoy your cheap Wal-Mart DVD player while you can; soon there may not be any electricity to run it.
It sounds like Congressman Neal does indeed have good reason to worry.