Dad2three
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FACTS behind the Obama economy
( according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics )
Of 266,000 jobs created in July, 35 percent or 92,000 jobs were full-time positions
Of the 953,000 jobs created through the first seven months of this year, only 23 percent, or 222,000, were full time.
That means 731,000 part-time jobs were created over the last 12 months.
When the recession began, 16.9 percent worked part time. Today, the share of workers with part-time jobs is 19.2 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Acording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics - the average work week has gone from over 38 hours in 1964 to under 34 hours in 2013 — a drop of almost 12 percent. These are labor facts that show the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may be effecting employment.
A STAGNANT ECONOMY
In September, 2.2 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, essentially unchanged from a year earlier.
The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was little changed in September at 7.1 million.
Where is the improvement? Where is this growing stronger economy? The facts from the Department of Labor just don't show evidence of one.... sorry liberals.
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
Part-time employment rising as full-time jobs decline - TheGazette
Jul 14 2014
Here's What Obama's 'Part-Time America' Really Looks Like
The president's critics love this talking point. But since 2010, full-time jobs are up 7.6 million, and part-time jobs have declined by more than 900,000
Here s What Obama s Part-Time America Really Looks Like - The Atlantic
The easiest way to fact-check the claim that part-time work is rising is to measure Americans working part-time who want to work full time—i.e. "for economic reasons." It turns out that the entire increase in part-time employment happened before Obamacare became a law in 2010
Three thoughts for the road:
1) Most people working part-time want to work part-time because they're in school, or they're raising kids, or they consider themselves mostly retired. Don't pay attention to anybody who's using the number of stay-at-home dads and moms to argue that Obamacare is destroying full-time work.
2) Last fall, the Fed produced a useful document explaining that "current levels of part-time work are largely within historical norms, despite increases for selected demographic groups, such as prime-age workers with a high-school degree or less."
3) If you insist on being a pessimist, here's a very smart way to express fear about the future of part-time work, also from the Fed. There are some industries, such as hotels, food service, and retail, that have historically had shorter workweeks and more part-time workers. If those sectors continue to grow faster than the overall economy (because other sectors, like government and manufacturing, are shrinking), then we should expect part-time work to remain elevated. Indeed, the relative strength of those industries today is one reason why part-time work hasn't declined even faster than it has.
Here s What Obama s Part-Time America Really Looks Like - The Atlantic
The Spectacular Myth of Obama's Part-Time America—in 5 Graphs
The Spectacular Myth of Obama s Part-Time America mdash in 5 Graphs - The Atlantic
DUBYA LOST OVER 1,000,00+ PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS IN 8 YEARS, OBAMA HAS OVER 10,000,000 PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS SINCE OBAMACARES PASSED FEB 2010, A NET OF ALMOST 7,000,000 SINCE HE BECAME PREZ
Put in any year you want and hit go at BLS
Bureau of Labor Statistics Data