The Forgotten Worker Continues To Lose From Capps’ Job-Destroying Agenda

The Forgotten Worker Continues To Lose From Capps’ Job-Destroying Agenda
Californians Give Up Looking For Work As Capps’ Blatant Efforts To Destroy Their Chance At Economic Recovery Keeps Unemployment Sky High

Washington — California unemployment for the month of January was announced today at the unacceptably high rate of 10.9 percent, proving that Lois Capps has not stopped pursuing the same failed policies that California families have been forced to endured throughout her career. Due to her job-crushing regulatory regime, the rate of participation in the workforce remains dangerously low as a consistently high unemployment rate stunts the economy.

“Lois Capps proved that she remains focused in 2012 on assuring that California families and small business owners are condemned to struggle under weak economic conditions,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Californians want to get back to work but Capps is more interested in maintaining her party’s big-government policies rather than encouraging growth.”

In January, California’s unemployment rate remained debilitatingly high at 10.9 percent. (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Accessed 3/13/2012)

The size of the workforce has been stubbornly low highlighting the lack of confidence Americans have in the Democrat party’s ability to get the economy back on track:

“During the economic expansion from 2003 to late 2007, the workforce participation rate was about 66 percent. It fell amid the recession and has been trending around 64 percent.” (Kevin G. Hall, “Jobless rate slides as workforce shrinks from exiting boomers,” McClatchy, 3/7/2012)

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