Drivethru HR

During my daily radio show “Daily DriveThru HR” this week I’d landed on relevant topic and issue that ended up taking a big part of the show with the assistance from a caller and good friend of the show “Jess at http://blogging4jobs.com”.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said he was not making a prediction and had not seen official data in advance, but rather had read a news article that pointed to the possibility of a revision.

“There will be a jobs revision I’m told tomorrow that’s likely to show additional job loss at the first part of the recession that started in December 2007, making the whole of job loss that we’ve dealt with even deeper,” Gibbs said.

Following last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a series of initiatives for small businesses including a $5,000 per new employee tax credit, and the establishment of a $30 billion small business lending fund created from leftover TARP money.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126239130384913061.html
By LUCA DI LEO and SARAH N. LYNCH
WASHINGTON — The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits in the U.S. fell in the latest week to its lowest level in nearly 18 months, a sign the labor market may be turning a corner.

http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/135955.html
President Barack Obama will Tuesday lay out three new approaches to battling the US jobs crisis, in a major speech intended to ensure employment returns along with slowly building economic growth…. read more

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/46328867.html

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-tries-to-loosen-credit-apf-14657678.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2009/02/23/story1.html?b=1235365200^1781013&s=sbc:4

http://www.newson6.com/global/story.asp?s=9898956

I’ve not went line by line through our “stimulus” package (yet) and pose a question to our representatives:  what businesses are going to put all these people to work?     Are you pushing jobs out to construction, business services, hospitality, it, health care, etc? 
Let us all know some of the details of what sectors will be getting this [...]