“The number of Americans lining up for new jobless benefits fell slightly last week but remained above levels posted earlier this year, suggesting improvement in the labor market is stalling. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped by 1,000 to 388,000, the Labor Department said on Thursday. “This was a disappointing number and offers more evidence that the labor market continues to lose traction,” said Joe Manimbo, an analyst at Western Union Business Solutions in Washington”, Jason Lange writes for Reuters.

“Economists polled by Reuters had expected new claims to fall to 375,000. Still, a separate report offered fresh hopes of a pickup in the housing market, which has been a drag on wider economic growth since the 2007-2009 recession. The National Association of Realtors said contracts to purchase previously owned U.S. homes rose 4.1 percent to a near two-year high in March. U.S. stocks rose following the release of the home sales data, while concerns over the labor market pushed yields lower on U.S. government debt”, he continues.

“The report on jobless claims was the latest example of fizzling momentum in the labor market recovery. Employers added 120,000 new jobs to their payrolls in March, the least since October, after averaging 246,000 jobs per month over the prior three months. New claims for unemployment benefits fell sharply over the winter but the improvement has largely reversed over the last month. The four-week moving average for new claims, a closely followed measure of labor market trends, rose 6,250 last week to 381,750, its highest since the week that ended January 7”, Lange finishes.

What with all the problems that endlessly arises, the fact that health is a major concern and food is scarce will probably be one great influencing factor for most people to think they’re doomed. Surely, prices of everyday commodities in the market have beaten the fountain when it comes to the frequency of their prices skyrocketing. Even those included in the budget friendly healthy grocery list seem to be more expensive as time passes!

Of course, it is imperative that families see to it that they have healthy foods for kids, after all, a young mind needs a lot of nourishment. With the fact of the prices being taken into account, it is probably economical if more families opt to learn how to become a vegetarian because of these reasons: vegetables are relatively cheaper, they contain most of the required food groups to help anyone get through the day, and of course, it’s a good change of pace once in a while.  To get by the current situations, one must only seek the most effective yet best alternatives, like eating healthy for example.

“The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States. The flood of tens of thousands of weapons underscores complaints from Mexico that the U.S. is responsible for arming the drug cartels plaguing its southern neighbor. Six years of violence between warring cartels have killed more than 47,000 people in Mexico”, Pete Yost of Associated Press writes.

“The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released its latest data covering 2007 through 2011. According to ATF, many of the guns seized in Mexico and submitted to ATF for tracing were recovered at the scenes of cartel shootings while others were seized in raids on illegal arms caches. All the recovered weapons were suspected of being used in crimes in Mexico. At an April 2 North American summit in Washington, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said the U.S. government has not done enough to stop the flow of assault weapons and other guns from the U.S. to Mexico. Calderon credited President Barack Obama with making an effort to reduce the gun traffic, but said Obama faces “internal problems ... from a political point of view””, Yost continues.

“There is Republican opposition in Congress and broad opposition from Republicans and gun-rights advocates elsewhere to a new assault weapons ban or other curbs on gun sales. The Obama administration says it is working to tighten inspections of border checkpoints in the absence of an assault rifle ban that expired before Obama took office. For more than a year, ATF has been reeling from accusations that some of its agents in Arizona were ordered by superiors to step aside rather than intercept illicit loads of weapons headed for Mexico”, he finishes.

One great reason for this many a guns being present in the bustling culturally rich country of Mexico would be that it aids in the fruition of a lot of crimes there. Apart from that, the problem of poverty is also one great contributing factor; of course when you can’t seem to find meat, you’d settle on how to become a vegetarian as vegetables are much cheaper. But with such meat loving people as the Mexicans, they are finding it quite hard to stick to such a foreign yet equally healthy diet fad.

Of course, stealing and drug abuse are already bad things themselves, but the existence of such dangerous firearms prove some things: that people are now in bad need of healthy foods to eat and that they don’t have enough money to supply their shopping of healthy ingredients in their healthy food list.  Because of such dire need for something so precious, even local townsfolk are finding it endearing to have a little protection and some easy words using their firearms, hence the outpour of firearms hailed from the US.