Census data shows Obamacare and welfare kept millions out of poverty

[thereisnospoon]

Reagan is dead

Obiwan's link destroyed your OP

and

Job numbers are still a negative net

Job numbers negative net? lol

Can't have it both ways. BTW 60% of all US Workers are employed by small business. That is employers of less than 100 people. One other thing. IN spite of your sycophantic feelings toward Obama, there is one certainty, the economy is cyclical. I just is. What goes up MUST come down. And of course the opposite is true.
Deal with it.

WTF? You dumbass, YOU claimed a net job loss, nice dodge dumfuk!


Cyclical? lol

That was my claim.

Can you spell Labor Participation Rate?

Where Are All the Workers?

WOOHOO, THE WORDS THAT NEVER ONCE CAME OUT OF GOPer/CONServatives MOUTH UNTIL 2010, LFP



LOL



Retirement Among Baby Boomers Contributing To Shrinking Labor Force. According to The Washington Post, many economists agree the shrinking labor force participation rate is largely explained by a demographic shift, wherein "baby boomers are starting to retire en masse":


Demographics have always played a big role in the rise and fall of the labor force. Between 1960 and 2000, the labor force in the United States surged from 59 percent to a peak of 67.3 percent. That was largely due to the fact that more women were entering the labor force while improvements in health and information technology allowed Americans to work more years.


But since 2000, the labor force rate has been steadily declining as the baby-boom generation has been retiring. Because of this, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago expects the labor force participation rate to be lower in 2020 than it is today, regardless of how well the economy does.

In a March report titled "Dispelling an Urban Legend," Dean Maki, an economist at Barclays Capital, found that demographics accounted for a majority of the drop in the participation rate since 2002


The incredible shrinking labor force

Hey genius. Retirees are not counted in labor participation rate. They are RETIRED....God Dammit you are fucking dense.

 

[thereisnospoon]

How will granting the super rich a super tax cut = more jobs?
How will allowing a few hundred super large businesses to control the market place = more jobs?
How will sacking millions of government public sector jobs = more jobs? A lot of these are r&d, science and infrastructure jobs.

The far right is bat shit insane.

Reducing non essential government employment is a GOOD thing.
Hey these government workers are allegedly the best and brightest. They should have no issues finding gainful employment in the private sector. Better known as life outside the protective bubble of union protected government employment.

 

[danielpalos]

The pubbies must be horrified.
Census data shows Obamacare and welfare kept millions out of poverty

If there was any good news in the census data dump on Wednesday, it was that the US’s welfare safety net programs and Barack Obama’s signature healthcare legislation are doing exactly what they are supposed to.

The supplemental poverty measure data released by the US Census bureau showed that programs like food stamps, refundable tax credits and social security benefits helped keep millions of Americans out of poverty in 2014. Similarly, the data regarding health insurance coverage showed that last year the number of uninsured Americans dropped by 8.8 million.

“In 2014, the percentage of people without health insurance for the entire calendar year was 10.4%, or 33 million people, lower than the rate, 13.3%, and the number of uninsured, 41.8 million, in 2013,” Victoria Velkoff, chief of the social, economic and housing statistics division at the bureau, said on Wednesday. “The decrease in the uninsured rate was 2.9%, or 8.8 million people.”

Americans with full-time jobs were the least likely to be uninsured.

“This is dramatic proof that the Affordable Care Act is a stunning success,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. “The historic decrease in the number of uninsured Americans is unmistakably attributable to the Affordable Care Act’s implementation.

“The numbers show that the greatest gains were among moderate-income families, communities of color and young people – the precise groups that most needed help in gaining health insurance. According to the report, households with incomes below $25,000 a year saw their rate of coverage increase by 4.3%, and households between $25,000 and $49,999 saw an increase of 5%. Hispanics, black people and Asians increased coverage rates by about 4%. And the rate of uninsured between ages 26 to 34 went down by 5.5%.”

just Socialism bailing out capitalism, like usual; for social profit, not capital profit.

 

[danielpalos]

Watchdog finds widespread fraud at U.S. Census Bureau
Watchdog finds widespread fraud at U.S. Census Bureau

Says the one that wants to see poor people die on the street and work hard while not receiving enough to survive.

Is an Iron Age work ethic a requirement in one of the finest Republics in the world? Why, in any at-will employment State.

In my opinion, Only fools and horses should be required to have an Iron Age work ethic in any at-will employment State in modern times.

 

[Misty]

The pubbies must be horrified.
Census data shows Obamacare and welfare kept millions out of poverty

If there was any good news in the census data dump on Wednesday, it was that the US’s welfare safety net programs and Barack Obama’s signature healthcare legislation are doing exactly what they are supposed to.

The supplemental poverty measure data released by the US Census bureau showed that programs like food stamps, refundable tax credits and social security benefits helped keep millions of Americans out of poverty in 2014. Similarly, the data regarding health insurance coverage showed that last year the number of uninsured Americans dropped by 8.8 million.

“In 2014, the percentage of people without health insurance for the entire calendar year was 10.4%, or 33 million people, lower than the rate, 13.3%, and the number of uninsured, 41.8 million, in 2013,” Victoria Velkoff, chief of the social, economic and housing statistics division at the bureau, said on Wednesday. “The decrease in the uninsured rate was 2.9%, or 8.8 million people.”

Americans with full-time jobs were the least likely to be uninsured.

“This is dramatic proof that the Affordable Care Act is a stunning success,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. “The historic decrease in the number of uninsured Americans is unmistakably attributable to the Affordable Care Act’s implementation.

“The numbers show that the greatest gains were among moderate-income families, communities of color and young people – the precise groups that most needed help in gaining health insurance. According to the report, households with incomes below $25,000 a year saw their rate of coverage increase by 4.3%, and households between $25,000 and $49,999 saw an increase of 5%. Hispanics, black people and Asians increased coverage rates by about 4%. And the rate of uninsured between ages 26 to 34 went down by 5.5%.”

Why do they bitch about our rabid poverty everyday on the news?

The children are starving.

 

[danielpalos]

Keep in mind this thread isn't about the poverty numbers, it's about obamacare/food stamps/etc keeping people out of poverty who would be in it without these programs.

try convincing the right it isn't just socialism bailing out capitalism, like usual.

 

[Dad2three]

LISTEN YOU CRAZY, INBRED WINGNUTTERS, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN AS MANY AMERICAN'S WORKING AS THERE IS TODAY. EVER

PUT IN ANY DATE YOU WANT YOU TOOLS

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

You may want to look up the definition of RATE

We can't even keep up with the birth rate, minus death and retirement

Rate? Oh you mean the 5.1% unemployment rate where the US has NEVER had more workers?


The unemployment rate is now lower than it was at any time during Ronald Reagan's presidency

 

[ScienceRocks]

Job numbers negative net? lol

Can't have it both ways. BTW 60% of all US Workers are employed by small business. That is employers of less than 100 people. One other thing. IN spite of your sycophantic feelings toward Obama, there is one certainty, the economy is cyclical. I just is. What goes up MUST come down. And of course the opposite is true.
Deal with it.

WTF? You dumbass, YOU claimed a net job loss, nice dodge dumfuk!


Cyclical? lol

That was my claim.

Can you spell Labor Participation Rate?

Where Are All the Workers?

WOOHOO, THE WORDS THAT NEVER ONCE CAME OUT OF GOPer/CONServatives MOUTH UNTIL 2010, LFP



LOL



Retirement Among Baby Boomers Contributing To Shrinking Labor Force. According to The Washington Post, many economists agree the shrinking labor force participation rate is largely explained by a demographic shift, wherein "baby boomers are starting to retire en masse":


Demographics have always played a big role in the rise and fall of the labor force. Between 1960 and 2000, the labor force in the United States surged from 59 percent to a peak of 67.3 percent. That was largely due to the fact that more women were entering the labor force while improvements in health and information technology allowed Americans to work more years.


But since 2000, the labor force rate has been steadily declining as the baby-boom generation has been retiring. Because of this, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago expects the labor force participation rate to be lower in 2020 than it is today, regardless of how well the economy does.

In a March report titled "Dispelling an Urban Legend," Dean Maki, an economist at Barclays Capital, found that demographics accounted for a majority of the drop in the participation rate since 2002


The incredible shrinking labor force

Hey genius. Retirees are not counted in labor participation rate. They are RETIRED....God Dammit you are fucking dense.

The only one dense is a loserterian like you that believes we shouldn't invest in our own country and that we should turn a blind eye to the offshoring corps.

 

[Dad2three]

WTF? You dumbass, YOU claimed a net job loss, nice dodge dumfuk!


Cyclical? lol

Ahh yes....The insult stage has been reached.
I win. You LOSE

Sorry Bubba, in right wing world having more than 8+ million PRIVATE sector more jobs than the day he was sworn in as Prez, is a "net job loss" lol


Moron

No one is addressing this issue.
BTW, with well over 25 million people LEAVING the job market since 2009, that 8 million number pales in comparison.
These are not "new" jobs either. Most are jobs which were vacant and now are being filled as a matter of economic course. In spite of this administration's disastrous domestic economic policy, the economy while sputtering along at a less than 2% annualized GDP growth rate, companies are adding back jobs which for years went unfilled.
For example. There is a company near here that makes and installs glass and metal shower enclosures and other bathroom fixtures. in the lat 2000's, the company went from three shifts per day to one. Two thirds of the workforce was laid off.
Now that same Co, is back to two shifts. Many of the laid off employees were called back to their jobs. Now, the laughable part of this is the White House spin doctors would label these as "new jobs created under this President"......Horseshit. The one third of the workers never called back is an example of a NET JOB LOSS....
Now, if you want to believe the spin coming from the federal government, go right ahead.
That is YOUR problem.
And now you will refute my post and call me names. Go ahead. You are a liberal. You cannot help yourself.
OUT.
LOSER.

Oh I get it dummy, IF the labor force has more workers August 2015 than they did Jan 2009, OR EVEN ANY YEAR UNDER DUBYA, that's a net job loss? YOU FUKKN KOOK


PRIVATE SECTOR TOTAL JOBS USA


2001 JAN 111,861,000 total

2007 July 115,813,000 (DUBYA'S HIGH POINT DUMMY)

2015 Aug 120,293,000 TOTAL PRIVATE SECTOR JOBS


Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

Crazy, stupid right wingers!!!

You still refuse to acknowledge the lowest labor participation rate in 50 years.
That's fine. ignore the facts.

Yep, the US has LOTS of old farts

AND the cost to care for them is going to grow through the roof AND IF RONNIE/GOP hadn't piled on the debt (cheered on by the baby boomers) and instead paid for Gov't, the hit our kids/grandkids our going to HAVE to take, would be MUCH easier without he debt created by GOP policies!

 

[Dad2three]

Hot dog carts huh? They have a corp title like that Bubs?


RECORD FUKKN CORP PROFITS IN THE US FOR OVER A DECADE, LOWEST SUSTAINED TAX BURDEN ON THE "JOB CREATORS" FOR 14 YEARS, LOWEST EFFECTIVE TAX BURDEN ON CORPS ANYWHERE IN THE DEVELOPED WORLD EXCEPT CHILE AND MEXICO, LOWEST SHARE OF COSTS COSTS EVER FOR CORPS

60% OF MIN WAGE JOBS ARE BY CORPS WITH 500+ EMPLOYEES

OVER HALF OF ALL US CAPITAL GAINS AND DIVIDENDS GO TO THE TOP 1/10TH OF 1% OF US

None of which is true.

Sorry, I was wrong:
The central finding of this report is that the majority of America’s lowest-paid workers are employed by large corporations, not small businesses


Specifically:

* The majority (66 percent) of low-wage workers are not employed by small businesses, but rather by large corporations with over 100 employees;


Corporate Profits of Low-Wage Employers




HALF OF CAP GAINS AND DIVIDENDS GO THE THE TOP 1/10TH OF 1% OF US



The Top 0.1% Of The Nation Earn Half Of All Capital Gains



Corporate Profits Are At An All-Time Record Peak And Expected To Grow in 2014

Corporate Profits Are At An All-Time Record Peak And Expected To Grow in 2014


According to data from the General Accountability Office cited by Kleinbard, corporations on average paid 12.6 percent as of 2010.


Expert debunks claim U.S. corporate taxes are too high

Very slick. Some of the nation's largest employers are retailers. Retail is for the most part low skill work and therefor low wage.
Also. Banks employ large numbers of people many of which hold low skill teller and customer service jobs.
Capital gains go to those who invest their money. It makes complete sense that those with larger amounts of wealth do the most investing.
So in sheer quantity, the numbers are correct. However, your premise ignores all the millions of people who on a yeqarly basis realize capital gains through their investments in for example, 401k plans. Pension plans. Mutual funds. Stock funds. IRA's. sales of real properties.
I'm not seeing a problem here.
You are reliable at one thing. Finding these left wing blogs that spew the shit with which you agree.
Look here......There is no nobility in poverty.
If you hate your station so much, DO SOMETHING about it. Stop the


adnjealousy and stop trying to bring down those who have found a better way to do things than you.
I'm sick of people like you who look at people like me that have scratched and clawed to advance themselves so that they can live a decent lifestyle, then accuse us of being selfish because we want to keep as much of what we earn as possible.
I am also pissed off at people like you who think by knocking down those who have succeeded at something would some how benefit YOU....
It is NONE of your business what anyone else earns or has.....

Good you admit you lied, and accept the links to counter your lies. Enough said dumbass!

And here we have the last retort liberals use. "You're a liar"....
95 million.....That's all you need to know.
That is the number of work eligible people in the US who CAN work, but cannot find work, but have given up.....

LMAOROG

95 million people are looking for work? My mom? My aunts? lol

Tool


THERE HAS NEVER BEEN THIS MANY JOBS, EVER!

 

[ScienceRocks]

The pubbies must be horrified.
Census data shows Obamacare and welfare kept millions out of poverty

If there was any good news in the census data dump on Wednesday, it was that the US’s welfare safety net programs and Barack Obama’s signature healthcare legislation are doing exactly what they are supposed to.

The supplemental poverty measure data released by the US Census bureau showed that programs like food stamps, refundable tax credits and social security benefits helped keep millions of Americans out of poverty in 2014. Similarly, the data regarding health insurance coverage showed that last year the number of uninsured Americans dropped by 8.8 million.

“In 2014, the percentage of people without health insurance for the entire calendar year was 10.4%, or 33 million people, lower than the rate, 13.3%, and the number of uninsured, 41.8 million, in 2013,” Victoria Velkoff, chief of the social, economic and housing statistics division at the bureau, said on Wednesday. “The decrease in the uninsured rate was 2.9%, or 8.8 million people.”

Americans with full-time jobs were the least likely to be uninsured.

“This is dramatic proof that the Affordable Care Act is a stunning success,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. “The historic decrease in the number of uninsured Americans is unmistakably attributable to the Affordable Care Act’s implementation.

“The numbers show that the greatest gains were among moderate-income families, communities of color and young people – the precise groups that most needed help in gaining health insurance. According to the report, households with incomes below $25,000 a year saw their rate of coverage increase by 4.3%, and households between $25,000 and $49,999 saw an increase of 5%. Hispanics, black people and Asians increased coverage rates by about 4%. And the rate of uninsured between ages 26 to 34 went down by 5.5%.”

Why do they bitch about our rabid poverty everyday on the news?

The children are starving.

Maybe it has something to do with NOT being paid right? You know, how the corporations are making record profit but pay their workers shit.

This is what happens when we have a whole shit load of monopolies controlling the market place and not allowing more competition into the game...Guess, what the corporation is going to raise their prices and pay their workers shit.

So yes, fathers and mothers can't work hard enough combined to make enough so they fall into poverty.

 

[Dad2three]

Job numbers negative net? lol

Can't have it both ways. BTW 60% of all US Workers are employed by small business. That is employers of less than 100 people. One other thing. IN spite of your sycophantic feelings toward Obama, there is one certainty, the economy is cyclical. I just is. What goes up MUST come down. And of course the opposite is true.
Deal with it.

WTF? You dumbass, YOU claimed a net job loss, nice dodge dumfuk!


Cyclical? lol

That was my claim.

Can you spell Labor Participation Rate?

Where Are All the Workers?

WOOHOO, THE WORDS THAT NEVER ONCE CAME OUT OF GOPer/CONServatives MOUTH UNTIL 2010, LFP



LOL



Retirement Among Baby Boomers Contributing To Shrinking Labor Force. According to The Washington Post, many economists agree the shrinking labor force participation rate is largely explained by a demographic shift, wherein "baby boomers are starting to retire en masse":


Demographics have always played a big role in the rise and fall of the labor force. Between 1960 and 2000, the labor force in the United States surged from 59 percent to a peak of 67.3 percent. That was largely due to the fact that more women were entering the labor force while improvements in health and information technology allowed Americans to work more years.


But since 2000, the labor force rate has been steadily declining as the baby-boom generation has been retiring. Because of this, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago expects the labor force participation rate to be lower in 2020 than it is today, regardless of how well the economy does.

In a March report titled "Dispelling an Urban Legend," Dean Maki, an economist at Barclays Capital, found that demographics accounted for a majority of the drop in the participation rate since 2002


The incredible shrinking labor force

Hey genius. Retirees are not counted in labor participation rate. They are RETIRED....God Dammit you are fucking dense.

Demographic Trends for the 50-and-Older Work Force

“Almost all of the decline (80 percent) in the participation rate since the first quarter of 2012 is accounted for by the increase in nonparticipation due to retirement. This implies that the decline in the unemployment rate since 2012 is not due to more discouraged workers dropping out of the labor force.”


NEVER HEARD OF RETIRING EARLY HUH DUMMY?

Declining Labor Participation Rates


EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT CAN'T THANKS TO GOP POLICY

On the other hand, the participation rate of the oldest Americans, those 65 and older, has been gradually increasing since 1985 and in May was 18.9, one of the highest levels since 1964.


The U.S. Workforce Is Going Gray


LIKE I SAID, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE JOBS IN THE USA AND EVEN RONNIE REAGAN NEVER HAD A 5.1% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, lol

 

[hortysir]

Can't have it both ways. BTW 60% of all US Workers are employed by small business. That is employers of less than 100 people. One other thing. IN spite of your sycophantic feelings toward Obama, there is one certainty, the economy is cyclical. I just is. What goes up MUST come down. And of course the opposite is true.
Deal with it.

WTF? You dumbass, YOU claimed a net job loss, nice dodge dumfuk!


Cyclical? lol

That was my claim.

Can you spell Labor Participation Rate?

Where Are All the Workers?

WOOHOO, THE WORDS THAT NEVER ONCE CAME OUT OF GOPer/CONServatives MOUTH UNTIL 2010, LFP



LOL



Retirement Among Baby Boomers Contributing To Shrinking Labor Force. According to The Washington Post, many economists agree the shrinking labor force participation rate is largely explained by a demographic shift, wherein "baby boomers are starting to retire en masse":


Demographics have always played a big role in the rise and fall of the labor force. Between 1960 and 2000, the labor force in the United States surged from 59 percent to a peak of 67.3 percent. That was largely due to the fact that more women were entering the labor force while improvements in health and information technology allowed Americans to work more years.


But since 2000, the labor force rate has been steadily declining as the baby-boom generation has been retiring. Because of this, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago expects the labor force participation rate to be lower in 2020 than it is today, regardless of how well the economy does.

In a March report titled "Dispelling an Urban Legend," Dean Maki, an economist at Barclays Capital, found that demographics accounted for a majority of the drop in the participation rate since 2002


The incredible shrinking labor force

Hey genius. Retirees are not counted in labor participation rate. They are RETIRED....God Dammit you are fucking dense.

Demographic Trends for the 50-and-Older Work Force

“Almost all of the decline (80 percent) in the participation rate since the first quarter of 2012 is accounted for by the increase in nonparticipation due to retirement. This implies that the decline in the unemployment rate since 2012 is not due to more discouraged workers dropping out of the labor force.”


NEVER HEARD OF RETIRING EARLY HUH DUMMY?

Declining Labor Participation Rates


EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT CAN'T THANKS TO GOP POLICY

On the other hand, the participation rate of the oldest Americans, those 65 and older, has been gradually increasing since 1985 and in May was 18.9, one of the highest levels since 1964.


The U.S. Workforce Is Going Gray


LIKE I SAID, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE JOBS IN THE USA AND EVEN RONNIE REAGAN NEVER HAD A 5.1% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, lol

Yea.
They're retiring early.
Because they gave up trying to compete for part time jobs.
If they're only going to get part time pay, they may as well draw SS

 

[Dad2three]

WTF? You dumbass, YOU claimed a net job loss, nice dodge dumfuk!


Cyclical? lol

That was my claim.

Can you spell Labor Participation Rate?

Where Are All the Workers?

WOOHOO, THE WORDS THAT NEVER ONCE CAME OUT OF GOPer/CONServatives MOUTH UNTIL 2010, LFP



LOL



Retirement Among Baby Boomers Contributing To Shrinking Labor Force. According to The Washington Post, many economists agree the shrinking labor force participation rate is largely explained by a demographic shift, wherein "baby boomers are starting to retire en masse":


Demographics have always played a big role in the rise and fall of the labor force. Between 1960 and 2000, the labor force in the United States surged from 59 percent to a peak of 67.3 percent. That was largely due to the fact that more women were entering the labor force while improvements in health and information technology allowed Americans to work more years.


But since 2000, the labor force rate has been steadily declining as the baby-boom generation has been retiring. Because of this, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago expects the labor force participation rate to be lower in 2020 than it is today, regardless of how well the economy does.

In a March report titled "Dispelling an Urban Legend," Dean Maki, an economist at Barclays Capital, found that demographics accounted for a majority of the drop in the participation rate since 2002


The incredible shrinking labor force

Hey genius. Retirees are not counted in labor participation rate. They are RETIRED....God Dammit you are fucking dense.

Demographic Trends for the 50-and-Older Work Force

“Almost all of the decline (80 percent) in the participation rate since the first quarter of 2012 is accounted for by the increase in nonparticipation due to retirement. This implies that the decline in the unemployment rate since 2012 is not due to more discouraged workers dropping out of the labor force.”


NEVER HEARD OF RETIRING EARLY HUH DUMMY?

Declining Labor Participation Rates


EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT CAN'T THANKS TO GOP POLICY

On the other hand, the participation rate of the oldest Americans, those 65 and older, has been gradually increasing since 1985 and in May was 18.9, one of the highest levels since 1964.


The U.S. Workforce Is Going Gray


LIKE I SAID, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE JOBS IN THE USA AND EVEN RONNIE REAGAN NEVER HAD A 5.1% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, lol

Yea.
They're retiring early.
Because they gave up trying to compete for part time jobs.
If they're only going to get part time pay, they may as well draw SS

8 years of Dubya/GOP "job creator" policies and the US lost over 1+ million PRIVATE sector jobs (of course, like Ronnie, they grew Gov't and Gov't jobs)


Under Obama there have been a NET of almost 8 million jobs since Obama Jan 2009 (12+ million since hitting Bush's bottom March 2010, the same month since Obamacares passed)

But it's Obama that's the problem??? lol

PERHAPS TIME TO GET RID OF SOME OF THESE "JOB CREATOR' TAX RATES BACK TO WHERE WE INCENTIVIZED HIRING VERSUS GAMBLING? You know like FDR-Carter had??

Yep, even Carter had nearly 9 million private sector jobs in only 4 years, compared to Ronnie's 12 million PRIVATE sector jobs in 8

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

 

[Misty]

The pubbies must be horrified.
Census data shows Obamacare and welfare kept millions out of poverty

If there was any good news in the census data dump on Wednesday, it was that the US’s welfare safety net programs and Barack Obama’s signature healthcare legislation are doing exactly what they are supposed to.

The supplemental poverty measure data released by the US Census bureau showed that programs like food stamps, refundable tax credits and social security benefits helped keep millions of Americans out of poverty in 2014. Similarly, the data regarding health insurance coverage showed that last year the number of uninsured Americans dropped by 8.8 million.

“In 2014, the percentage of people without health insurance for the entire calendar year was 10.4%, or 33 million people, lower than the rate, 13.3%, and the number of uninsured, 41.8 million, in 2013,” Victoria Velkoff, chief of the social, economic and housing statistics division at the bureau, said on Wednesday. “The decrease in the uninsured rate was 2.9%, or 8.8 million people.”

Americans with full-time jobs were the least likely to be uninsured.

“This is dramatic proof that the Affordable Care Act is a stunning success,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. “The historic decrease in the number of uninsured Americans is unmistakably attributable to the Affordable Care Act’s implementation.

“The numbers show that the greatest gains were among moderate-income families, communities of color and young people – the precise groups that most needed help in gaining health insurance. According to the report, households with incomes below $25,000 a year saw their rate of coverage increase by 4.3%, and households between $25,000 and $49,999 saw an increase of 5%. Hispanics, black people and Asians increased coverage rates by about 4%. And the rate of uninsured between ages 26 to 34 went down by 5.5%.”

Why do they bitch about our rabid poverty everyday on the news?

The children are starving.

Maybe it has something to do with NOT being paid right? You know, how the corporations are making record profit but pay their workers shit.

This is what happens when we have a whole shit load of monopolies controlling the market place and not allowing more competition into the game...Guess, what the corporation is going to raise their prices and pay their workers shit.

So yes, fathers and mothers can't work hard enough combined to make enough so they fall into poverty.

Spoken from someone who has obviously not owned nor operated a corporation.

It's too hard to explain to someone that has so little knowledge of running a company.

Think of it this way, without the corp they'd have no job.

 

[Dad2three]

WTF? You dumbass, YOU claimed a net job loss, nice dodge dumfuk!


Cyclical? lol

That was my claim.

Can you spell Labor Participation Rate?

Where Are All the Workers?

WOOHOO, THE WORDS THAT NEVER ONCE CAME OUT OF GOPer/CONServatives MOUTH UNTIL 2010, LFP



LOL



Retirement Among Baby Boomers Contributing To Shrinking Labor Force. According to The Washington Post, many economists agree the shrinking labor force participation rate is largely explained by a demographic shift, wherein "baby boomers are starting to retire en masse":


Demographics have always played a big role in the rise and fall of the labor force. Between 1960 and 2000, the labor force in the United States surged from 59 percent to a peak of 67.3 percent. That was largely due to the fact that more women were entering the labor force while improvements in health and information technology allowed Americans to work more years.


But since 2000, the labor force rate has been steadily declining as the baby-boom generation has been retiring. Because of this, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago expects the labor force participation rate to be lower in 2020 than it is today, regardless of how well the economy does.

In a March report titled "Dispelling an Urban Legend," Dean Maki, an economist at Barclays Capital, found that demographics accounted for a majority of the drop in the participation rate since 2002


The incredible shrinking labor force

Hey genius. Retirees are not counted in labor participation rate. They are RETIRED....God Dammit you are fucking dense.

Demographic Trends for the 50-and-Older Work Force

“Almost all of the decline (80 percent) in the participation rate since the first quarter of 2012 is accounted for by the increase in nonparticipation due to retirement. This implies that the decline in the unemployment rate since 2012 is not due to more discouraged workers dropping out of the labor force.”


NEVER HEARD OF RETIRING EARLY HUH DUMMY?

Declining Labor Participation Rates


EXCEPT FOR THOSE THAT CAN'T THANKS TO GOP POLICY

On the other hand, the participation rate of the oldest Americans, those 65 and older, has been gradually increasing since 1985 and in May was 18.9, one of the highest levels since 1964.


The U.S. Workforce Is Going Gray


LIKE I SAID, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE JOBS IN THE USA AND EVEN RONNIE REAGAN NEVER HAD A 5.1% UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, lol

Yea.
They're retiring early.
Because they gave up trying to compete for part time jobs.
If they're only going to get part time pay, they may as well draw SS

8 years of Dubya/GOP "job creator" policies and the US lost over 1+ million PRIVATE sector jobs (of course, like Ronnie, they grew Gov't and Gov't jobs)


Under Obama there have been a NET of almost 8 million jobs since Obama Jan 2009 (12+ million since hitting Bush's bottom March 2010, the same month since Obamacares passed)

But it's Obama that's the problem??? lol

PERHAPS TIME TO GET RID OF SOME OF THESE "JOB CREATOR' TAX RATES BACK TO WHERE WE INCENTIVIZED HIRING VERSUS GAMBLING? You know like FDR-Carter had??

Yep, even Carter had nearly 9 million private sector jobs in only 4 years, compared to Ronnie's 12 million PRIVATE sector jobs in 8

Bureau of Labor Statistics Data

The pubbies must be horrified.
Census data shows Obamacare and welfare kept millions out of poverty

If there was any good news in the census data dump on Wednesday, it was that the US’s welfare safety net programs and Barack Obama’s signature healthcare legislation are doing exactly what they are supposed to.

The supplemental poverty measure data released by the US Census bureau showed that programs like food stamps, refundable tax credits and social security benefits helped keep millions of Americans out of poverty in 2014. Similarly, the data regarding health insurance coverage showed that last year the number of uninsured Americans dropped by 8.8 million.

“In 2014, the percentage of people without health insurance for the entire calendar year was 10.4%, or 33 million people, lower than the rate, 13.3%, and the number of uninsured, 41.8 million, in 2013,” Victoria Velkoff, chief of the social, economic and housing statistics division at the bureau, said on Wednesday. “The decrease in the uninsured rate was 2.9%, or 8.8 million people.”

Americans with full-time jobs were the least likely to be uninsured.

“This is dramatic proof that the Affordable Care Act is a stunning success,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. “The historic decrease in the number of uninsured Americans is unmistakably attributable to the Affordable Care Act’s implementation.

“The numbers show that the greatest gains were among moderate-income families, communities of color and young people – the precise groups that most needed help in gaining health insurance. According to the report, households with incomes below $25,000 a year saw their rate of coverage increase by 4.3%, and households between $25,000 and $49,999 saw an increase of 5%. Hispanics, black people and Asians increased coverage rates by about 4%. And the rate of uninsured between ages 26 to 34 went down by 5.5%.”

Why do they bitch about our rabid poverty everyday on the news?

The children are starving.

Maybe it has something to do with NOT being paid right? You know, how the corporations are making record profit but pay their workers shit.

This is what happens when we have a whole shit load of monopolies controlling the market place and not allowing more competition into the game...Guess, what the corporation is going to raise their prices and pay their workers shit.

So yes, fathers and mothers can't work hard enough combined to make enough so they fall into poverty.

Spoken from someone who has obviously not owned nor operated a corporation.

It's too hard to explain to someone that has so little knowledge of running a company.

Think of it this way, without the corp they'd have no job.

Corps are the ONLY way jobs are created?

Our Hidden History of Corporations in the United States


When American colonists declared independence from England in 1776, they also freed themselves from control by English corporations that extracted their wealth and dominated trade. After fighting a revolution to end this exploitation, our country’s founders retained a healthy fear of corporate power and wisely limited corporations exclusively to a business role. Corporations were forbidden from attempting to influence elections, public policy, and other realms of civic society.

Initially, the privilege of incorporation was granted selectively to enable activities that benefited the public, such as construction of roads or canals. Enabling shareholders to profit was seen as a means to that end. The states also imposed conditions (some of which remain on the books, though unused) like these*:

• Corporate charters (licenses to exist) were granted for a limited time and could be revoked promptly for violating laws.
• Corporations could engage only in activities necessary to fulfill their chartered purpose.
• Corporations could not own stock in other corporations nor own any property that was not essential to fulfilling their chartered purpose.
• Corporations were often terminated if they exceeded their authority or caused public harm.
• Owners and managers were responsible for criminal acts committed on the job.
• Corporations could not make any political or charitable contributions nor spend money to influence law-making.

For 100 years after the American Revolution, legislators maintained tight control of the corporate chartering process.

Our Hidden History of Corporations in the United States

OVER HALF OF ALL DIVIDENDS AND CAPITAL GAINS GO TO THE TOP 1/10TH OF 1% OF US


LOOK AT THE EFFECTIVE RATES WHEN THOSE "JOB CREATORS" HAD IT SO HORRIBLY:

NOW LOOK AT PROFITS VERSUS WAGES PAID

 

[pinqy]

95 million.....That's all you need to know.
That is the number of work eligible people in the US who CAN work, but cannot find work, but have given up.....

No, it's the number of people age 16 and older excluding those in prison or an institution who did not work the week of August 9-15 (and not just temporarily absent from a job) and did not look for work from July 19-August 15. This includes about 25 million disabled, 25 million 65 years and older not disabled, 12 million full time students, stay home spouses etc. The number who say they want and are able to work but gave up because they didn't think they'd succeed is 624,000

Where did you get the idea that there were 94 million who are free to work but gave up?

 

[thereisnospoon]

95 million.....That's all you need to know.
That is the number of work eligible people in the US who CAN work, but cannot find work, but have given up.....

No, it's the number of people age 16 and older excluding those in prison or an institution who did not work the week of August 9-15 (and not just temporarily absent from a job) and did not look for work from July 19-August 15. This includes about 25 million disabled, 25 million 65 years and older not disabled, 12 million full time students, stay home spouses etc. The number who say they want and are able to work but gave up because they didn't think they'd succeed is 624,000

Where did you get the idea that there were 94 million who are free to work but gave up?

Nice try.
Even the labor underutilization rate is 10.2% ,,,,,That's the U-6 rate....
Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization
The bottom line. The Obama economy sucks. And you people confirm this because you look to government for answers.
Pretty sick and tired of you Obamabots making excuses and blaming everyone except those who've been at the helm for the last 6 plus years

 

[Dad2three]

95 million.....That's all you need to know.
That is the number of work eligible people in the US who CAN work, but cannot find work, but have given up.....

No, it's the number of people age 16 and older excluding those in prison or an institution who did not work the week of August 9-15 (and not just temporarily absent from a job) and did not look for work from July 19-August 15. This includes about 25 million disabled, 25 million 65 years and older not disabled, 12 million full time students, stay home spouses etc. The number who say they want and are able to work but gave up because they didn't think they'd succeed is 624,000

Where did you get the idea that there were 94 million who are free to work but gave up?

Nice try.
Even the labor underutilization rate is 10.2% ,,,,,That's the U-6 rate....
Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization
The bottom line. The Obama economy sucks. And you people confirm this because you look to government for answers.
Pretty sick and tired of you Obamabots making excuses and blaming everyone except those who've been at the helm for the last 6 plus years

Better to have 8 years of Dubya/GOP "job creator" policies that ONLY was a ponzi scheme based on BS?

 

[pinqy]

95 million.....That's all you need to know.
That is the number of work eligible people in the US who CAN work, but cannot find work, but have given up.....

No, it's the number of people age 16 and older excluding those in prison or an institution who did not work the week of August 9-15 (and not just temporarily absent from a job) and did not look for work from July 19-August 15. This includes about 25 million disabled, 25 million 65 years and older not disabled, 12 million full time students, stay home spouses etc. The number who say they want and are able to work but gave up because they didn't think they'd succeed is 624,000

Where did you get the idea that there were 94 million who are free to work but gave up?

Nice try.

Are you claiming I'm wrong? Where did you get the idea that everyone Not in the Labor Force was able to work but gave up? It's not based on fact.

Even the labor underutilization rate is 10.2% ,,,,,That's the U-6 rate....
Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

Right. Down from 17.1% at its height. All six underutilization measures tend to go in the same direction.