Here's the link to the Mark Vorpahl puiece that appearred on countercurrents;
The news on Oregon's unemployment rate is bad and getting worse, and it is the product of the massive transfer of wealth from the lost middle class to the stratospherically wealthy. In addition, it does not take a lot of deep thoughts to conclude that it is a by-product of the private sector's wholesale looting of the public sector - the demonization of government. That said, the state's unemployment rate nudged up to 9.6 percent in August, essentially unchanged from 9.5 percent in July.
More than 46 million Americans are living in poverty - that's one in six . The nation's poverty rate, which now stands at just over 15 percent, has climbed for three consecutive years.
The employment number have policymakers -- right up to President Barack Obama tied in knots over the problem of balancing hiring and government spending. But corporate America has already clearly stated what it will take to stop the hemorrhaging: the trade off is jobs in exchange for the destruction of environmental and labor protection. When America finally does go back to work, this will be a different country: a toxic slave labor camp with only two ways out: the military or prison.- KBOO