jobs No matter which way you look at it, tech jobs are still concentrating in just a few cities By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:46:36 +0000 In December, Brookings Metro and Robert Atkinson of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation released a report noting that 90% of the nation's innovation sector employment growth in the last 15 years was generated in just five major coastal cities: Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and San Jose, Calif. This finding sparked appropriate consternation,… Full Article
jobs Making sense of the monthly jobs report during the COVID-19 pandemic By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 18:43:02 +0000 The monthly jobs report—the unemployment rate from one survey and the change in employer payrolls from another survey—is one of the most closely watched economic indicators, particularly at a time of an economic crisis like today. Here’s a look at how these data are collected and how to interpret them during the COVID-19 pandemic. What… Full Article
jobs Making sense of the monthly jobs report during the COVID-19 pandemic By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 18:43:02 +0000 The monthly jobs report—the unemployment rate from one survey and the change in employer payrolls from another survey—is one of the most closely watched economic indicators, particularly at a time of an economic crisis like today. Here’s a look at how these data are collected and how to interpret them during the COVID-19 pandemic. What… Full Article
jobs Unemployment Rate Falls to 7.3% in August, but Really the Jobs Numbers say "Blech!" By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:07:00 -0400 The headlines seem pretty good. Unemployment fell a tick to 7.3 percent. And jobs growth continued, with payrolls expanding by 169,000 in August, which is just shy of the 175,000 new jobs that analysts were expecting. But beneath the headline: blech! The most important news was the revisions to what we had previously thought was a healthy and perhaps self-sustaining recovery. Instead, jobs growth in July was revised from 162,000, to a weak 104,000, and June was also revised downward. Taken together, this month's revisions means we've created 74,000 fewer jobs than previously believed. And the previous jobs report subtracted another 26,000 jobs through revisions. Moreover, for reasons that remain a mystery, revisions have tended to be pro-cyclical, meaning that the healthy recovery we thought we were having might have been expected to yield further upward revisions. All this means that analysts are hastily revising their views. The other bad news comes from the household survey, where employment fell 115,000, leading the employment-to-population ratio to decline by 0.1 percentage points. So the decline in the unemployment rate isn't due to folks getting jobs; instead, it's due to people dropping out of the labor force. I have two simple metrics I use to measure the "underlying" pace of jobs growth. The first puts 80% weight on the (more accurate) payrolls survey, and 20% weight on the noisier household survey. That measure suggests employment grew by only 112,000 in August. The alternative is to focus on the 3-month average of payrolls growth, which suggests we're creating slightly around 148,000 jobs per month. Bottom line: This report says that we're barely creating enough jobs to keep the unemployment rate falling from its current high levels. Policymakers have been looking for a signal that the recovery has become self-sustaining. This report doesn't provide it. And until we're confident that the recovery will keep rolling on, we should delay either any monetary tightening, further fiscal cuts, and definitely postpone the legislative shenanigans that Congress is threatening. Authors Justin Wolfers Image Source: © Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Full Article
jobs In November jobs report, real earnings and payrolls improve but labor force participation remains weak By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 12:50:00 -0500 November's U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment report showed continued improvement in the job market, with employers adding 211,000 workers to their payrolls and hourly pay edging up compared with its level a year ago. The pace of job growth was similar to that over the past year and somewhat slower than the pace in 2014. For the 69th consecutive month, private-sector payrolls increased. Since the economic recovery began in the third quarter of 2009, all the nation’s employment gains have occurred as a result of expansion in private-sector payrolls. Government employment has shrunk by more than half a million workers, or about 2.5 percent. In the past twelve months, however, public payrolls edged up by 93,000. The good news on employment gains in November was sweetened by revised estimates of job gains in the previous two months. Revisions added 8,000 to estimated job growth in September and 27,000 to job gains in October. The BLS now estimates that payrolls increased 298,000 in October, a big rebound compared with the more modest gains in August and September, when payrolls grew an average of about 150,000 a month. Average hourly pay in November was 2.3 percent higher than its level 12 months earlier. This is a slightly faster rate of improvement compared with the gains we saw between 2010 and 2014. A tighter job market may mean that employers are now facing modestly higher pressure to boost employee compensation. The exceptionally low level of consumer price inflation means that the slow rate of nominal wage growth translates into a healthy rate of real wage improvement. The latest BLS numbers show that real weekly and hourly earnings in October were 2.4 percent above their levels one year earlier. Not only have employers added more than 2.6 million workers to their payrolls over the past year, the purchasing power of workers' earnings have been boosted by the slightly faster pace of wage gain and falling prices for oil and other commodities. The BLS household survey also shows robust job gains last month. Employment rose 244,000 in November, following a jump of 320,000 in October. More than 270,000 adults entered the labor force in November, so the number of unemployed increased slightly, leaving the unemployment rate unchanged at 5.0 percent. In view of the low level of the jobless rate, the median duration of unemployment spells remains surprisingly long, 10.8 weeks. Between 1967 and the onset of the Great Recession, the median duration of unemployment was 10.8 weeks or higher in just seven months. Since the middle of the Great Recession, the median duration of unemployment has been 10.8 weeks or longer for 82 consecutive months. The reason, of course, is that many of the unemployed have been looking for work for a long time. More than one-quarter of the unemployed—slightly more than two million job seekers—have been jobless for at least 6 months. That number has been dropping for more than five years, but remains high relative to our experience before the Great Recession. If there is bad news in the latest employment report, it's the sluggish response of labor force participation to a brighter job picture. The participation rate of Americans 16 and older edged up 0.1 point in November but still remains 3.5 percentage points below its level before the Great Recession. About half the decline can be explained by an aging adult population, but a sizeable part of the decline remains unexplained. The participation rate of men and women between 25 and 54 years old is now 80.8 percent, exactly the same level it was a year ago but 2.2 points lower than it was before the Great Recession. Despite the fact that real wages are higher and job finding is now easier than was the case earlier in the recovery, the prime-age labor force participation rate remains stuck well below its level before the recession. How strong must the recovery be before prime-age adults are induced to come back into the work force? Even though the recovery is now 6 and a half years old, we still do not know. Authors Gary Burtless Image Source: © Fred Greaves / Reuters Full Article
jobs No matter which way you look at it, tech jobs are still concentrating in just a few cities By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:46:36 +0000 In December, Brookings Metro and Robert Atkinson of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation released a report noting that 90% of the nation's innovation sector employment growth in the last 15 years was generated in just five major coastal cities: Seattle, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and San Jose, Calif. This finding sparked appropriate consternation,… Full Article
jobs Making sense of the monthly jobs report during the COVID-19 pandemic By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 18:43:02 +0000 The monthly jobs report—the unemployment rate from one survey and the change in employer payrolls from another survey—is one of the most closely watched economic indicators, particularly at a time of an economic crisis like today. Here’s a look at how these data are collected and how to interpret them during the COVID-19 pandemic. What… Full Article
jobs Broadband Creates Jobs By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 The National Broadband Plan should be carefully designed so as not to reduce the investment in broadband technologies, which have averaged $30 billion per year since 2005, say Robert W. Crandall and Hal J. Singer. To do otherwise, they say, would risk a reduction in the incentives for investment in the nation’s broadband infrastructure and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that such investment supports. Full Article
jobs Creating jobs: Bill Clinton to the rescue? By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Wed, 25 May 2016 10:55:00 -0400 At an event this past week, Hillary Clinton announced that, if elected, she planned to put Bill Clinton in charge of creating jobs. If he becomes the “First Gentlemen” -- or as she prefers to call him, the “First Dude,” – he just might have some success in this role. The country’s very strong record of job creation during the first Clinton administration is a hopeful sign. (Full disclosure: I served in his Administration.) But assuming he's given the role of jobs czar, what would Bill Clinton do? The uncomfortable fact is that no one knows how to create enough jobs. Although about 50 percent of the public, according to Pew, worries that there are not enough jobs available, and virtually every presidential candidate is promising to produce more, economists are not sure how to achieve this goal. The debate centers around why we think people are jobless. Unless we can agree on the diagnosis, we will not be able to fashion an appropriate policy response. Some economists think that an unemployment rate hovering around 5 percent constitutes “full employment.” Those still looking for jobs, in this view, are either simply transitioning voluntarily from one job to another or they are “structurally unemployed.” The latter term refers to a mismatch, either between a worker’s skills and the skills that employers are seeking, or between where the workers live and where the jobs are geographically. (The decline in housing values or tighter zoning restrictions, for example, may have made it more difficult for people to move to states or cities where jobs are more available.) Another view is that despite the recovery from the Great Recession, there is still a residue of “cyclical” unemployment. If the Federal Reserve or Congress were to boost demand by keeping interest rates low, reducing taxes, or increasing spending on, say, infrastructure, this would create more jobs – or so goes the argument. But the Fed can’t reduce interest rates significantly because they are already near rock-bottom levels and tax and spending policies are hamstrung by political disagreements. In my view, the U.S. currently suffers from both structural and cyclical unemployment. The reason I believe there is still some room to stimulate the economy is because we have not yet seen a significant increase in labor costs and inflation. Political problems aside, we should be adding more fuel to the economy in the form of lower taxes or higher public spending. High levels of structural unemployment are also a problem. The share of working-age men who are employed has been dropping for decades at least in part because of outsourcing and automation. The share of the unemployed who have been out of work for more than six months is also relatively high for an economy at this stage of the business cycle. One possibility is that the recession caused many workers to drop out of the labor force and that after a long period of joblessness, they have seen their skills atrophy and employers stigmatize them as unemployable. The depressing fact is that none of these problems is easy to solve. Manufacturing jobs that employ a lot of people are not coming back. Retraining the work force for a high-tech economy will take a long time. Political disagreements won’t disappear unless there is a landslide election that sweeps one party into control of all three branches of government. So what can Bill Clinton or anyone else do? We may need to debate some more radical solutions such as subsidized jobs or a basic income for the structurally unemployed or a shorter work week to spread the available work around. These may not be politically feasible for some time to come, but former President Clinton is the right person to engage communities and employers in some targeted job creation projects now and to involve the country in a serious debate about what to do about jobs over the longer haul. Editor's note: This piece originally appeared in Inside Sources. Authors Isabel V. Sawhill Publication: Inside Sources Image Source: Paul Morigi Full Article
jobs Boosting Jobs with the Right Kind of Housing and Transportation Efforts By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Last week, President Obama called for “any idea, any proposal, any way we can get the economy growing faster so that people who need work can find it faster.” There is a tried and true idea that has always been used in past recoveries; activate the building of the built environment … but with a major… Full Article Uncategorized
jobs A fixable mistake: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:00:33 +0000 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA, P.L. 115-97) was the largest tax overhaul since 1986. Rushed through Congress without adequate hearings and passed by a near-party-line vote, the law is a major legislative blunder badly in need of correction. The overall critique is simple: by providing large, regressive, deficit-financed tax cuts to… Full Article
jobs Wine tasters have fruit flies to thank for their jobs By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:43:37 -0400 Fruit flies play a role in all those fruity flavors we detect as we take whiff of wine fumes. Find out how. Full Article Science
jobs At Free Geek, Computer Repair Paves the Path to Jobs By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:00:00 -0500 Free Geek is a non-profit reuse organization. Its mission: provide access to computers, the internet, education, and job skills to the local community. Full Article Technology
jobs Renewable energy jobs have almost doubled in past five years By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 24 May 2017 11:15:26 -0400 The rise of clean energy jobs is outpacing the loss of fossil fuel ones. Full Article Business
jobs Could Michigan replace lost manufacturing jobs with solar jobs? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:55:36 -0400 It wouldn't solve everything, but becoming a solar power hub could give a new spark to the area. Full Article Business
jobs Breadfruit Trees are 'Trees That Feed' and Create Jobs in Jamaica By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:00:00 -0400 Breadfruit trees planted by Trees That Feed Foundation are creating food systems and jobs in Jamaica. Full Article Living
jobs Green Jobs Conference a Success By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:33:43 -0400 The reports are in from last week's "Good Jobs, Green Jobs" conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., and attendees are saying it was a great success. More than 1,100 people attended the Blue Green Alliance conference. People networked, listened to speakers and Full Article Business
jobs The Week in Pictures: New Zealand Oil Spill, How Steve Jobs Changed the World, and More (Slideshow) By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:00:42 -0400 Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing. Oil is spilling into the ocean, harming wildlife and reaching shore. Full Article Living
jobs Are pointless jobs destroying the environment? By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:19:20 -0400 Anthropologist David Graeber thinks we could do without half our jobs. Full Article Business
jobs East Coast Cap-and-Trade Program Created Jobs, Saved Energy For Connecticut By www.treehugger.com Published On :: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:28:00 -0500 One to keep in you pocket whenever you're faced with someone trying to tell you than putting a price on carbon and promoting energy efficiency will hurt more than they help: Huffington Post reports on the benefits of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Full Article Business
jobs Hate your job? Pack it up, pack it in - it's time to head out West - Monster and Brandwatch break down exactly how Americans are feeling about their jobs By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 10 Jun 2015 15:20:00 EDT Monster and Brandwatch break down exactly how Americans are feeling about their jobs. Full Article Workforce Management Human Resources Broadcast Feed Announcements Survey Polls & Research MultiVu Video
jobs Japan jumps more than 2% as Asia stocks rise ahead of US jobs report By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 07:23:19 GMT The U.S. employment report for April is expected to be out at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday. Economists expect that more than 20 million jobs were lost last month, according to Dow Jones. Full Article
jobs These 8 fast-growing jobs will be in demand after Covid-19—and can pay up to $136,000 per year By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:57:01 GMT Experts expect these jobs will be in-demand and pay well in a post-coronavirus pandemic economy. From nurses to developers, here are eight to look for as the country recovers from the pandemic. Full Article
jobs This chart shows how coronavirus jobs losses dwarf those in prior recessions By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 16:54:02 GMT Jobs losses related to the coronavirus dwarf employment declines seen during prior U.S. recessions. Full Article
jobs Consumer confidence plunges in April as millions lose jobs By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:24:58 GMT The Conference Board said Tuesday that its confidence index tumbled to a reading of 86.9, the lowest level in nearly six years and down from 118.8 in March. Full Article
jobs April's jobs report showing millions out of work looms large in the week ahead By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 21:26:14 GMT In the week ahead, the April jobs report is expected to show the highest unemployment since 1939. Full Article
jobs Trump shrugs off the brutal jobs report, focuses more on Michael Flynn case By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 19:29:58 GMT Trump said he's not to blame after the Labor Department reported a devastating loss of more than 20 million jobs in the coronavirus crisis last month. Full Article
jobs Here's why restaurants reopening could be good news for summer jobs By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:03:20 GMT Prior to the pandemic, a historically tight labor market was pushing employers to get creative to find and keep talent. Now, it's enhanced unemployment benefits that are causing a challenge. Full Article
jobs Fed's James Bullard says the jobs report on Friday will be one of the worst ever By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 14:38:20 GMT Bullard's comments came minutes before ADP reported that private payrolls shed more than 20 million jobs in April amid coronavirus shutdowns. Full Article
jobs Payroll processor ADP CEO says hiring data indicate the jobs market has begun to 'stabilize' By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 01:24:12 GMT After weeks of record unemployment claims across the country, "we have seen a couple of indicators of some bottoming," ADP CEO Carlos Rodriguez told CNBC. Full Article
jobs Coronavirus has taken millions of jobs, but here's where they're coming back By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 12:04:30 GMT While some jobs won't be coming back after the lockdown, most, at least for now, will. Full Article
jobs The Week That Was: 20.5 million jobs lost in April, unemployment near 15% By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 20:43:29 GMT CNBC's Dominic Chu looks ahead to what are likely to be next week's top business and financial stories. Full Article
jobs Op-ed: How the US can use the Covid-19 crisis to reimagine the energy world, save jobs and stabilize markets By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:48:18 GMT The U.S. role as the world's leading oil and gas producer doesn't feel as empowering as it recently did, with oil prices heading into negative territory for the first time ever this week. Full Article
jobs This is how many furloughed Main Street employees will get jobs back By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 16:49:01 GMT As the economy reopens from the coronavirus shock, not all small business jobs held on Main Street will be coming back, not even by a long shot, according to the Q2 2020 CNBC|SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey. Full Article
jobs Coronavirus live updates: New jobs emerge from the pandemic; Amazon and sellers struggle to adapt By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 14:56:43 GMT Covid-19 has infected more than 3.8 million people around the world as of Friday, killing at least 269,881 people. Full Article
jobs Uber cuts 3,700 jobs, CEO foregoes salary due to uncertain pandemic impact By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 13:27:00 GMT Uber will lay off 3,700 employees, the company announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday. The cuts to its customer support and recruiting teams represent about 14% of its 26,900 employees, based on Uber's most recent headcount. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will also forgo his base salary for the rest of the year, which was $1 million in 2019. Full Article
jobs Virgin Atlantic cuts more than 3,000 jobs to mitigate 'devastating' coronavirus impact By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 13:41:53 GMT Virgin Atlantic announced it will cut 3,150 jobs, becoming the airline to announce a reduction in headcount because of the coronavirus crisis. Full Article
jobs This is the jobs number that will show how fast the labor market can heal By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 19:46:15 GMT Economists are looking at continuing unemployment claims data as the best labor market barometer as states reopen. Full Article
jobs April employment report is expected to show more than 20 million lost jobs and depth of pain as US economy shut down By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 13:43:45 GMT April's jobs report will be horrific, and with the worst job losses ever, it should provide a critical look into the economy's collapse. Full Article
jobs Some hope for the recovery in the dismal jobs report: 78% of workers say their layoff is temporary By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 17:26:58 GMT Nearly 4 in 5 people who lost their jobs in the coronavirus crisis told the government they see their layoffs as temporary. Full Article
jobs What isn't the jobs report telling us? By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 21:51:07 GMT CNBC's Steve Liesman on what's missing from the jobs report. With CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders, Guy Adami, Tim Seymour, Brian Kelly and Jeff Mills. Full Article
jobs Coronavirus outbreak could put 500K summer restaurants jobs in jeopardy By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:57:22 GMT Restaurants across the U.S. are slated to reopen during the summer season as coronavirus restrictions are lifted. CNBC's Kate Rogers reports on what that could mean for restaurant jobs. Full Article
jobs April jobs report can shed light on how long the unemployment crisis could last, economist says By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 10:35:10 GMT The April jobs report is expected to show the worst unemployment rate since the Great Recession. Michelle Girard, chief U.S. economist at NatWest Markets, and Beth Akers, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, joins "Squawk Box" to discuss what they expect. Full Article
jobs Futures point to higher open ahead of April jobs report By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 10:39:41 GMT U.S. stock futures rose early Friday morning after more gains in tech led to the Nasdaq Composite erasing all of its losses for 2020. CNBC's Frank Holland reports. Full Article
jobs US economy loses 20.5 million jobs in April, raising unemployment rate to 14.7% By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 12:35:43 GMT CNBC's Steve Liesman breaks down the April jobs report, which came in at 20.5 million nonfarm payrolls lost in the month. This is the most historic job loss within a single month. Full Article
jobs Labor Secretary Scalia on April jobs data: These are very difficult numbers for us to see By www.cnbc.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 18:57:26 GMT CNBC's Tyler Mathisen talks about the historic job losses in April with Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia. Full Article
jobs Four causes for alarm in the US jobs figures – and one possible reason for hope By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-08T18:01:46Z More than 20m Americans lost their jobs in April – and Friday’s report suggests there might be much more trouble aheadJobs figures: April worst month since Great DepressionFriday was a dark day for the US economy. The labor department announced more than 20 million people lost their jobs in April as the coronavirus shut down much of the economy.Here are five key takeaways from a report that will enter the history books as the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.This was the #JobsReport everyone was fearing & for good reason: 20M jobs lost. For African Americans unemployment rose to 16.7% & a similar jump for Whites to 14.2%. This gives a historically low ratio of 1.3. Of course that means it took a pandemic to get these rates closer. pic.twitter.com/XPIG57BpJiSometimes it's better to not post anything at all Continue reading... Full Article US economy Business Economics Coronavirus outbreak US news US politics US unemployment and employment data
jobs 20m Americans lost their jobs in April in worst month since Great Depression By www.theguardian.com Published On :: 2020-05-08T13:06:54Z Unemployment rate rose to 14.7% from just 4.4% in March as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the global economyCoronavirus – live US updatesLive global updatesMore than 20 million people in the US lost their jobs in April and the unemployment rate more than trebled as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the world’s largest economy, triggering a financial crisis unseen since the Great Depression.The Department of Labor announced Friday that the US unemployment rate rose to 14.7% from just 4.4% in March and a near 50-year low of 3.5% in February before the US was hit by the virus. Continue reading... Full Article US unemployment and employment statistics Coronavirus outbreak Business Unemployment and employment statistics World news US news Economics
jobs Larry Kudlow on April jobs report: Trump assembled $9T rescue plan, we’ve done the best we can By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 11:17:38 -0400 U.S. loses record 20.5 million jobs in the month of April; White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow weighs in on ‘America’s Newsroom.’ Full Article
jobs Sharad Pawar: PM Modi keeping mum on farmer suicides, lack of jobs By www.mid-day.com Published On :: 23 Apr 2019 10:28:14 GMT NCP chief Sharad Pawar has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of deliberately maintaining "silence" on issues like suicide by farmers and unemployment while campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls. Addressing a rally at Bhayander in Thane district of Maharashtra Monday night, Pawar said unemployment has gone up manifold since the NDA government came to power in 2014. The former Union minister alleged that the Modi government lacked policies for ensuring industrial and agricultural growth. He was canvassing for Anand Paranjape who is the NCP candidate from Kalyan Lok Sabha constituency. "Due to lack of any industrial policy, unemployment has gone up in Maharashtra which is the most industrialised state in the country. Modi government is deliberately not making any attempts to ensure the growth of industries and agriculture," the NCP chief said. Claiming that as many as 11,990 farmers have killed themselves since the BJP government assumed office, Pawar said the prime minister avoids talking about this reality as well as other issues like farm distress, water scarcity and price rise at hustings. "Modi also keeps mum on the Rafale deal scam. Under Modi regime, institutions like RBI, CBI, supreme court etc. are being undermined," he alleged. Last week, Pawar lambasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he is "peeping into the homes of others" as he has no family of his own. Addressisng a poll rally at Partur here Monday, Pawar said Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman was released by Pakistan under pressure from the world community and the Modi government had no role in it. "I have my wife, daughter, son-in-law and nephews. What Modi has?...no one," he said, attacking the PM over his remarks on feud in the Pawar family. "That is why Modi is peeping into the homes of others. How will he (Modi) know how to run a family, he has no one?" the former Union minister said. The Maratha strongman said Modi stooped low by making comments about his family, but he cannot behave in the same way. At an election rally in Wardha early this month, Modi had said a family war is going on in the NCP. The PM had also claimed that Pawar's nephew Ajit Pawar is slowing capturing the 1999-founded party. Pawar said if Modi had a 56-inch chest, as he has claimed, then why his government has failed to ensure the release of Kulbhushan Jadhav, a former Navy officer, from Pakistani jail. Catch up on all the latest Crime, National, International and Hatke news here. Also, download the new mid-day Android and iOS apps to get the latest updates Full Article
