November 17, 2009 11:49AM # Tuesday Links --- SHARE - In the past eight months, the unemployment rate has jumped from 7.2 percent to 10.2 percent. [Here’s why. ](http://bit.ly/3LVDtV) - [Three trillion reasons](http://bit.ly/uCIWZ) to hope the Senate is not as fiscally reckless as their counterparts in the House on health care reform. - Obama a federalist? [Not quite](http://bit.ly/27SwGk): “Not yet a year into his administration, Obama’s record on 10th Amendment issues is already clear: He’ll let the states have their way when their policies please blue team sensibilities and he’ll call in the feds when they don’t.” More [here. ](http://bit.ly/31YM6l) - It’s time to [get immigration reform right](http://bit.ly/4sM4F1): “Republican leaders need to liberate themselves from the Lou Dobbs minority within their own ranks that will oppose any legalization. Democratic leaders need to face down their labor-union constituency that opposes any workable temporary-visa program. Working together, President Obama and a bipartisan majority in Congress can seize the current opportunity to reform the immigration system and finally fix the problem of illegal immigration.” - Podcast: “[Preventing the Next Fort Hood Shooting](http://bit.ly/3HsWPS)” ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).