The unemployment map has been updated through July 2010. Our original post on the earlier map is here.

Is the current decline in public support for unions tied to the economy, or is there a more sophisticated reason, including the coordinated effort to blame unions for all that is wrong in this country?

The Center for Economic Policy and Research released a depressing study on job loss which suggests the jobs deficit wont be erased until 2021.

"Third generation union organizer" Mike Elk's piece confirming EFCA is dead started it by suggesting the EFCA battle is one with larger themes and objectives than, uh, EFCA. Then came the crying "fowl" in this post by J. Justin Wilson claiming the EFCA fight is war by proxy in "a larger conflict about political sway, public opinion, and economic ideology." One is forced to pause here and consider whether Wilson is referring to Galliformes or  Anseriformes, or as is likely, neither, but I digress. Elk retorts at Firedoglake calling Wilson "the corporate version of that creepy hit man from No Country for Old Men." Elk's position? Wilson, tool of Wall Street, needs to continue destroying unions to continue destroying the economy. You can't make this stuff up . . .