Mitch McConnell talks about the lack of improvement in unemployment as if he had no role in it. But the reality is that despite his claims that uncertainty and regulation are preventing employers from hiring, the private sector has, slowly, started hiring. It is the collapse of local government that has kept the unemployment rate up.

http://www.louisville.com/content/what-mcconnell-wont-tell-you-about-unemployment-part-3-government-does-create-jobs-arena

One thing that needs to be noted, and which makes it easier to understand McConnell’s utter lack of concern for the unemployed, is that unemployment has not been distributed equally throughout the economy. The unemployed didn’t vote Republican even before they were unemployed.

http://www.louisville.com/content/what-mcconnell-wont-tell-you-about-unemployment-part-2-whos-unemployed-arena

Mitch McConnell said this week that America has lost 1.5 million jobs since the first stimulus bill was passed. That is not true.

A little over a month ago, this nation began a long overdue discussion about jobs and the crisis of unemployment for the first time in over two years. But since we have to have this discussion with people with no aversion to just making stuff up, we would be wise to bone up. Some stuff has changed in the last two and a half years.

http://www.louisville.com/content/what-mcconnell-wont-tell-you-about-unemployment-part-1-numbers-arena

Major Rand Paul contributor has history of pipeline problems [The Arena].