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Today's Federal Reserve Beige Book: The overall Labor supply continues to be "very tight", with contacts noting shortages of workers. Pay rates have grown by 3 percent to 20 percent, with the sharper increases reflecting a greater supply-demand gap.
The US Economy is kicking ass & Obama could win a third term.
Right, I bet you grabbed that bullshit tidbit from another liberal brainwash outlet. Ha ha ha:
Does the number reflect the 30 million out of work and no longer looking?
I can't keep arguing and telling them over and over how and why they are wrong.Hard to believe Republicans are still strutting around boasting about taking Congress
The Do Nothing Congress is one of the worst in history in its inability to accomplish anything
Yeah, funny, you guys are boasting about a landslide that hasn't even happened yet. Ha ha ha.
I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my timeYou dare say that after you post this trash?Today's Federal Reserve Beige Book: The overall Labor supply continues to be "very tight", with contacts noting shortages of workers. Pay rates have grown by 3 percent to 20 percent, with the sharper increases reflecting a greater supply-demand gap.
The US Economy is kicking ass & Obama could win a third term.
Right, I bet you grabbed that bullshit tidbit from another liberal brainwash outlet. Ha ha ha:
The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
The Big Lie:
Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.
Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall Street about how unemployment is "down" to 5.6%. The cheerleading for this number is deafening. The media loves a comeback story, the White House wants to score political points and Wall Street would like you to stay in the market.
None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed. That's right. While you are as unemployed as one can possibly be, and tragically may never find work again, you are not counted in the figure we see relentlessly in the news -- currently 5.6%. Right now, as many as 30 million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me, the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling" unemployment.
There's another reason why the official rate is misleading. Say you're an out-of-work engineer or healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 -- maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn -- you're not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
Yet another figure of importance that doesn't get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find -- in other words, you are severely underemployed -- the government doesn't count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity -- it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.
Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.
I hear all the time that "unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it." When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth -- the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real -- then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't "feeling" something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.
The people are feeling it. Business is up. Sales are up. Home values are back. See what happens when we manufacture more? Michigan and the surrounding states are doing better. And I remember when I knew lots of people who were displaced after the bush great recession.
Listen you dishonest or stupid fool. Back then our 401k and home values plummeted. Companies like Hewlett Packard were cutting 25,000 jobs. Can you show us that all the nations corporations are slashing jobs? I don't think you can.
And corporate profits are thru the roof. Are you realizing trickle down doesn't work?
I would agree with you the middle class should be doing better but you would disagree with me on the solution.
I love loser Republicans like you who got screwed by the GOP but you blame Democrats. All I can do is offer you the same advice you offered people who lost they're jobs back in 2007. Go back to school or start your own business.
Article is posted by Gallup, an unbiased source unlike the liberal commie anti capitalistic crap coming from your source. Do you deny the fact that 30 million and more are out of work and stopped looking? Do you deny that black crime and unemployment is at record highs? Do you deny that a record number of people are on give assistance programs. But oh, let's just regurgitate some govt. concocted bullshit just so Obama can look as if he's actually accomplished something.
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
I can't keep arguing and telling them over and over how and why they are wrong.Hard to believe Republicans are still strutting around boasting about taking Congress
The Do Nothing Congress is one of the worst in history in its inability to accomplish anything
Yeah, funny, you guys are boasting about a landslide that hasn't even happened yet. Ha ha ha.
I'm just glad to see many others get it too.
Well that settles it!
Why even bother to hold an election?
You voted for Reagan when he had Alzheimer's?I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my timeYou dare say that after you post this trash?Today's Federal Reserve Beige Book: The overall Labor supply continues to be "very tight", with contacts noting shortages of workers. Pay rates have grown by 3 percent to 20 percent, with the sharper increases reflecting a greater supply-demand gap.
The US Economy is kicking ass & Obama could win a third term.
Right, I bet you grabbed that bullshit tidbit from another liberal brainwash outlet. Ha ha ha:
The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
The Big Lie:
Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.
Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall Street about how unemployment is "down" to 5.6%. The cheerleading for this number is deafening. The media loves a comeback story, the White House wants to score political points and Wall Street would like you to stay in the market.
None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed. That's right. While you are as unemployed as one can possibly be, and tragically may never find work again, you are not counted in the figure we see relentlessly in the news -- currently 5.6%. Right now, as many as 30 million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me, the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling" unemployment.
There's another reason why the official rate is misleading. Say you're an out-of-work engineer or healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 -- maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn -- you're not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
Yet another figure of importance that doesn't get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find -- in other words, you are severely underemployed -- the government doesn't count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity -- it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.
Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.
I hear all the time that "unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it." When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth -- the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real -- then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't "feeling" something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.
The people are feeling it. Business is up. Sales are up. Home values are back. See what happens when we manufacture more? Michigan and the surrounding states are doing better. And I remember when I knew lots of people who were displaced after the bush great recession.
Listen you dishonest or stupid fool. Back then our 401k and home values plummeted. Companies like Hewlett Packard were cutting 25,000 jobs. Can you show us that all the nations corporations are slashing jobs? I don't think you can.
And corporate profits are thru the roof. Are you realizing trickle down doesn't work?
I would agree with you the middle class should be doing better but you would disagree with me on the solution.
I love loser Republicans like you who got screwed by the GOP but you blame Democrats. All I can do is offer you the same advice you offered people who lost they're jobs back in 2007. Go back to school or start your own business.
Article is posted by Gallup, an unbiased source unlike the liberal commie anti capitalistic crap coming from your source. Do you deny the fact that 30 million and more are out of work and stopped looking? Do you deny that black crime and unemployment is at record highs? Do you deny that a record number of people are on give assistance programs. But oh, let's just regurgitate some govt. concocted bullshit just so Obama can look as if he's actually accomplished something.
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
What makes you think I'll vote Jeb? You'll vote Hillary because you are a cool aid drinker that votes for party, not country. I am neither republican or democrat. I voted for Clinton and then for Reagan. Obama is bad news, he is the exact opposite of Bill Clinton,, and the radicals that belong in the asylum have taken over the democrat party.
I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my timeYou dare say that after you post this trash?Today's Federal Reserve Beige Book: The overall Labor supply continues to be "very tight", with contacts noting shortages of workers. Pay rates have grown by 3 percent to 20 percent, with the sharper increases reflecting a greater supply-demand gap.
The US Economy is kicking ass & Obama could win a third term.
Right, I bet you grabbed that bullshit tidbit from another liberal brainwash outlet. Ha ha ha:
The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
The Big Lie:
Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.
Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall Street about how unemployment is "down" to 5.6%. The cheerleading for this number is deafening. The media loves a comeback story, the White House wants to score political points and Wall Street would like you to stay in the market.
None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed. That's right. While you are as unemployed as one can possibly be, and tragically may never find work again, you are not counted in the figure we see relentlessly in the news -- currently 5.6%. Right now, as many as 30 million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me, the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling" unemployment.
There's another reason why the official rate is misleading. Say you're an out-of-work engineer or healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 -- maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn -- you're not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
Yet another figure of importance that doesn't get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find -- in other words, you are severely underemployed -- the government doesn't count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity -- it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.
Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.
I hear all the time that "unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it." When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth -- the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real -- then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't "feeling" something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.
The people are feeling it. Business is up. Sales are up. Home values are back. See what happens when we manufacture more? Michigan and the surrounding states are doing better. And I remember when I knew lots of people who were displaced after the bush great recession.
Listen you dishonest or stupid fool. Back then our 401k and home values plummeted. Companies like Hewlett Packard were cutting 25,000 jobs. Can you show us that all the nations corporations are slashing jobs? I don't think you can.
And corporate profits are thru the roof. Are you realizing trickle down doesn't work?
I would agree with you the middle class should be doing better but you would disagree with me on the solution.
I love loser Republicans like you who got screwed by the GOP but you blame Democrats. All I can do is offer you the same advice you offered people who lost they're jobs back in 2007. Go back to school or start your own business.
Article is posted by Gallup, an unbiased source unlike the liberal commie anti capitalistic crap coming from your source. Do you deny the fact that 30 million and more are out of work and stopped looking? Do you deny that black crime and unemployment is at record highs? Do you deny that a record number of people are on give assistance programs. But oh, let's just regurgitate some govt. concocted bullshit just so Obama can look as if he's actually accomplished something.
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
What makes you think I'll vote Jeb? You'll vote Hillary because you are a cool aid drinker that votes for party, not country. I am neither republican or democrat. I voted for Clinton and then for Reagan. Obama is bad news, he is the exact opposite of Bill Clinton,, and the radicals that belong in the asylum have taken over the democrat party.
You voted for Reagan when he had Alzheimer's?I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my timeYou dare say that after you post this trash?Right, I bet you grabbed that bullshit tidbit from another liberal brainwash outlet. Ha ha ha:
The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
The Big Lie:
Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.
Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall Street about how unemployment is "down" to 5.6%. The cheerleading for this number is deafening. The media loves a comeback story, the White House wants to score political points and Wall Street would like you to stay in the market.
None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed. That's right. While you are as unemployed as one can possibly be, and tragically may never find work again, you are not counted in the figure we see relentlessly in the news -- currently 5.6%. Right now, as many as 30 million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me, the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling" unemployment.
There's another reason why the official rate is misleading. Say you're an out-of-work engineer or healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 -- maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn -- you're not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
Yet another figure of importance that doesn't get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find -- in other words, you are severely underemployed -- the government doesn't count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity -- it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.
Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.
I hear all the time that "unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it." When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth -- the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real -- then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't "feeling" something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.
The people are feeling it. Business is up. Sales are up. Home values are back. See what happens when we manufacture more? Michigan and the surrounding states are doing better. And I remember when I knew lots of people who were displaced after the bush great recession.
Listen you dishonest or stupid fool. Back then our 401k and home values plummeted. Companies like Hewlett Packard were cutting 25,000 jobs. Can you show us that all the nations corporations are slashing jobs? I don't think you can.
And corporate profits are thru the roof. Are you realizing trickle down doesn't work?
I would agree with you the middle class should be doing better but you would disagree with me on the solution.
I love loser Republicans like you who got screwed by the GOP but you blame Democrats. All I can do is offer you the same advice you offered people who lost they're jobs back in 2007. Go back to school or start your own business.
Article is posted by Gallup, an unbiased source unlike the liberal commie anti capitalistic crap coming from your source. Do you deny the fact that 30 million and more are out of work and stopped looking? Do you deny that black crime and unemployment is at record highs? Do you deny that a record number of people are on give assistance programs. But oh, let's just regurgitate some govt. concocted bullshit just so Obama can look as if he's actually accomplished something.
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
What makes you think I'll vote Jeb? You'll vote Hillary because you are a cool aid drinker that votes for party, not country. I am neither republican or democrat. I voted for Clinton and then for Reagan. Obama is bad news, he is the exact opposite of Bill Clinton,, and the radicals that belong in the asylum have taken over the democrat party.
Why did you vote for Reagan in 2000?You voted for Reagan when he had Alzheimer's?I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my timeYou dare say that after you post this trash?
The people are feeling it. Business is up. Sales are up. Home values are back. See what happens when we manufacture more? Michigan and the surrounding states are doing better. And I remember when I knew lots of people who were displaced after the bush great recession.
Listen you dishonest or stupid fool. Back then our 401k and home values plummeted. Companies like Hewlett Packard were cutting 25,000 jobs. Can you show us that all the nations corporations are slashing jobs? I don't think you can.
And corporate profits are thru the roof. Are you realizing trickle down doesn't work?
I would agree with you the middle class should be doing better but you would disagree with me on the solution.
I love loser Republicans like you who got screwed by the GOP but you blame Democrats. All I can do is offer you the same advice you offered people who lost they're jobs back in 2007. Go back to school or start your own business.
Article is posted by Gallup, an unbiased source unlike the liberal commie anti capitalistic crap coming from your source. Do you deny the fact that 30 million and more are out of work and stopped looking? Do you deny that black crime and unemployment is at record highs? Do you deny that a record number of people are on give assistance programs. But oh, let's just regurgitate some govt. concocted bullshit just so Obama can look as if he's actually accomplished something.
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
What makes you think I'll vote Jeb? You'll vote Hillary because you are a cool aid drinker that votes for party, not country. I am neither republican or democrat. I voted for Clinton and then for Reagan. Obama is bad news, he is the exact opposite of Bill Clinton,, and the radicals that belong in the asylum have taken over the democrat party.
I voted for Reagan because Carter fucked up the country and the world.
Obama is Carter on steroids.
You voted for Reagan when he had Alzheimer's?I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my timeYou dare say that after you post this trash?
The people are feeling it. Business is up. Sales are up. Home values are back. See what happens when we manufacture more? Michigan and the surrounding states are doing better. And I remember when I knew lots of people who were displaced after the bush great recession.
Listen you dishonest or stupid fool. Back then our 401k and home values plummeted. Companies like Hewlett Packard were cutting 25,000 jobs. Can you show us that all the nations corporations are slashing jobs? I don't think you can.
And corporate profits are thru the roof. Are you realizing trickle down doesn't work?
I would agree with you the middle class should be doing better but you would disagree with me on the solution.
I love loser Republicans like you who got screwed by the GOP but you blame Democrats. All I can do is offer you the same advice you offered people who lost they're jobs back in 2007. Go back to school or start your own business.
Article is posted by Gallup, an unbiased source unlike the liberal commie anti capitalistic crap coming from your source. Do you deny the fact that 30 million and more are out of work and stopped looking? Do you deny that black crime and unemployment is at record highs? Do you deny that a record number of people are on give assistance programs. But oh, let's just regurgitate some govt. concocted bullshit just so Obama can look as if he's actually accomplished something.
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
What makes you think I'll vote Jeb? You'll vote Hillary because you are a cool aid drinker that votes for party, not country. I am neither republican or democrat. I voted for Clinton and then for Reagan. Obama is bad news, he is the exact opposite of Bill Clinton,, and the radicals that belong in the asylum have taken over the democrat party.
I voted for Reagan because Carter fucked up the country and the world.
Obama is Carter on steroids.
Today's Federal Reserve Beige Book: The overall Labor supply continues to be "very tight", with contacts noting shortages of workers. Pay rates have grown by 3 percent to 20 percent, with the sharper increases reflecting a greater supply-demand gap.
The US Economy is kicking ass & Obama could win a third term.
Right, I bet you grabbed that bullshit tidbit from another liberal brainwash outlet. Ha ha ha:
Does the number reflect the 30 million out of work and no longer looking?
I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my timeYou dare say that after you post this trash?Right, I bet you grabbed that bullshit tidbit from another liberal brainwash outlet. Ha ha ha:
The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment
The Big Lie:
Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.
Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall Street about how unemployment is "down" to 5.6%. The cheerleading for this number is deafening. The media loves a comeback story, the White House wants to score political points and Wall Street would like you to stay in the market.
None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed. That's right. While you are as unemployed as one can possibly be, and tragically may never find work again, you are not counted in the figure we see relentlessly in the news -- currently 5.6%. Right now, as many as 30 million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me, the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling" unemployment.
There's another reason why the official rate is misleading. Say you're an out-of-work engineer or healthcare worker or construction worker or retail manager: If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 -- maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn -- you're not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
Yet another figure of importance that doesn't get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find -- in other words, you are severely underemployed -- the government doesn't count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
And it's a lie that has consequences, because the great American dream is to have a good job, and in recent years, America has failed to deliver that dream more than it has at any time in recent memory. A good job is an individual's primary identity, their very self-worth, their dignity -- it establishes the relationship they have with their friends, community and country. When we fail to deliver a good job that fits a citizen's talents, training and experience, we are failing the great American dream.
Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older. We need that to be 50% and a bare minimum of 10 million new, good jobs to replenish America's middle class.
I hear all the time that "unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it." When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth -- the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real -- then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't "feeling" something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.
The people are feeling it. Business is up. Sales are up. Home values are back. See what happens when we manufacture more? Michigan and the surrounding states are doing better. And I remember when I knew lots of people who were displaced after the bush great recession.
Listen you dishonest or stupid fool. Back then our 401k and home values plummeted. Companies like Hewlett Packard were cutting 25,000 jobs. Can you show us that all the nations corporations are slashing jobs? I don't think you can.
And corporate profits are thru the roof. Are you realizing trickle down doesn't work?
I would agree with you the middle class should be doing better but you would disagree with me on the solution.
I love loser Republicans like you who got screwed by the GOP but you blame Democrats. All I can do is offer you the same advice you offered people who lost they're jobs back in 2007. Go back to school or start your own business.
Article is posted by Gallup, an unbiased source unlike the liberal commie anti capitalistic crap coming from your source. Do you deny the fact that 30 million and more are out of work and stopped looking? Do you deny that black crime and unemployment is at record highs? Do you deny that a record number of people are on give assistance programs. But oh, let's just regurgitate some govt. concocted bullshit just so Obama can look as if he's actually accomplished something.
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
What makes you think I'll vote Jeb? You'll vote Hillary because you are a cool aid drinker that votes for party, not country. I am neither republican or democrat. I voted for Clinton and then for Reagan. Obama is bad news, he is the exact opposite of Bill Clinton,, and the radicals that belong in the asylum have taken over the democrat party.
PLEASE tell me more of the myth that Obama's diff than BJ Bill? Pretty please? HOW?
Today's Federal Reserve Beige Book: The overall Labor supply continues to be "very tight", with contacts noting shortages of workers. Pay rates have grown by 3 percent to 20 percent, with the sharper increases reflecting a greater supply-demand gap.
The US Economy is kicking ass & Obama could win a third term.
Right, I bet you grabbed that bullshit tidbit from another liberal brainwash outlet. Ha ha ha:
Does the number reflect the 30 million out of work and no longer looking?
Get off your fat ass & get a job! We need more workers & fewer government tit sucking slackers posting lies on message boards! There are not 30 million looking for work. Baby Boomers are to old to work & retiring. Bush destroyed 14 million jobs, Obama has created or recovered 6 million jobs.
You voted for Reagan when he had Alzheimer's?I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my timeArticle is posted by Gallup, an unbiased source unlike the liberal commie anti capitalistic crap coming from your source. Do you deny the fact that 30 million and more are out of work and stopped looking? Do you deny that black crime and unemployment is at record highs? Do you deny that a record number of people are on give assistance programs. But oh, let's just regurgitate some govt. concocted bullshit just so Obama can look as if he's actually accomplished something.
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
What makes you think I'll vote Jeb? You'll vote Hillary because you are a cool aid drinker that votes for party, not country. I am neither republican or democrat. I voted for Clinton and then for Reagan. Obama is bad news, he is the exact opposite of Bill Clinton,, and the radicals that belong in the asylum have taken over the democrat party.
I voted for Reagan because Carter fucked up the country and the world.
Obama is Carter on steroids.
PLEASE tell me HOW Carter fukked up?
Nixon/Fords wage and price controls and OPEC's world wide squeeze? lol
I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my timeYou dare say that after you post this trash?
The people are feeling it. Business is up. Sales are up. Home values are back. See what happens when we manufacture more? Michigan and the surrounding states are doing better. And I remember when I knew lots of people who were displaced after the bush great recession.
Listen you dishonest or stupid fool. Back then our 401k and home values plummeted. Companies like Hewlett Packard were cutting 25,000 jobs. Can you show us that all the nations corporations are slashing jobs? I don't think you can.
And corporate profits are thru the roof. Are you realizing trickle down doesn't work?
I would agree with you the middle class should be doing better but you would disagree with me on the solution.
I love loser Republicans like you who got screwed by the GOP but you blame Democrats. All I can do is offer you the same advice you offered people who lost they're jobs back in 2007. Go back to school or start your own business.
Article is posted by Gallup, an unbiased source unlike the liberal commie anti capitalistic crap coming from your source. Do you deny the fact that 30 million and more are out of work and stopped looking? Do you deny that black crime and unemployment is at record highs? Do you deny that a record number of people are on give assistance programs. But oh, let's just regurgitate some govt. concocted bullshit just so Obama can look as if he's actually accomplished something.
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
What makes you think I'll vote Jeb? You'll vote Hillary because you are a cool aid drinker that votes for party, not country. I am neither republican or democrat. I voted for Clinton and then for Reagan. Obama is bad news, he is the exact opposite of Bill Clinton,, and the radicals that belong in the asylum have taken over the democrat party.
PLEASE tell me more of the myth that Obama's diff than BJ Bill? Pretty please? HOW?
You're too stupid to understand. He told idiots in his party (like you) to shut up, and passed bills with republican majority house and got people off welfare and back too work for one. Obama has made Americans hate each other and put a record number of people on welfare. Clinton was dubbed as the first black president and elevated more blacks to the middle class than ever before. Obama has made more blacks angry and out of work than ever before. Clinton struck pro law enforcement bills with republicans which brought crime down, Obama demonizes the police to such as extent they are now afraid to enforce the law. Clinton was a uniter, Obama is an America hating divider that pits Americans against each other along racial and economic lines. Clinton was a pro business capitalist, Obama is an anti business commie who hates America. Bill Clinton supported our allies, Obama stabs them in the back and destabilizes them.
The democrat party made Hillary pay for Bill's sins of compromising with the republicans for the good of the country by making Obama the nominee.
On the flip side, Bill Clinton was a pervert with no respect for the Oval Office . He could have committed infidelity by having sex or a blowjob elsewhere, but we don't elect presidents for that.
You voted for Reagan when he had Alzheimer's?I could argue evey word you wrote all day but why bother? Will it make you smarter or be a waste of my time
I know you are wrong. I know why you are wrong. And telling you has never convinced you so why explain it again. You vote jeb I'll vote hillary and hillary wins. Goodnight.
What makes you think I'll vote Jeb? You'll vote Hillary because you are a cool aid drinker that votes for party, not country. I am neither republican or democrat. I voted for Clinton and then for Reagan. Obama is bad news, he is the exact opposite of Bill Clinton,, and the radicals that belong in the asylum have taken over the democrat party.
I voted for Reagan because Carter fucked up the country and the world.
Obama is Carter on steroids.
PLEASE tell me HOW Carter fukked up?
Nixon/Fords wage and price controls and OPEC's world wide squeeze? lol
How did Carter fuck up? Carter was so bad, he is the skunk of the Democrat party. No one even gets close to him, dimwit.
Today's Federal Reserve Beige Book: The overall Labor supply continues to be "very tight", with contacts noting shortages of workers. Pay rates have grown by 3 percent to 20 percent, with the sharper increases reflecting a greater supply-demand gap.
The US Economy is kicking ass & Obama could win a third term.
Right, I bet you grabbed that bullshit tidbit from another liberal brainwash outlet. Ha ha ha:
Does the number reflect the 30 million out of work and no longer looking?
Get off your fat ass & get a job! We need more workers & fewer government tit sucking slackers posting lies on message boards! There are not 30 million looking for work. Baby Boomers are to old to work & retiring. Bush destroyed 14 million jobs, Obama has created or recovered 6 million jobs.
Ok so you agree that Obama is responsible for 30 million jobless people. They just need to get off their fat asses. And same with the record number of blacks out of work...get of their fat asses. What a great humanitarian you are. Ha ha ha.
We're talking about TV, dope, not radio.You don't get NewsMaxTV? How about Bloomberg? How about CNBC?Fox news is the only non democrat news on TV / Cable
Your satellite radio has Bloomberg or CNBC? I do get Bloomberg at home, but I never watch it, and they rarely report news.
What was the results of the fast/furious investigation?A bunch of made-up "scandals"....and the economy.is because Bush mishandled the aftermath of the Iraq war.
...and Katrina.
...and covert CIA operatives.
...and Veterans Affairs.
...and the Taliban.
...and al Qaeda.
...and SCOTUS appointments.
...and Climate Change.
...and Blackwater.
...and...
Operation fast and furious.
Obama care
Acorn
Apology tour
Ben Ghazi.
Syria.
ISIS.
Collapse of Iraq.
IRS scandal.
Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea
Solyndra
Domestic Crime wave
Voter fraud
Riots protests and divisiveness
Demonization of law enforcement
800 billion stimulus fuckup
Record number out of work
Alienating America's allies
Arab Spring fuckup.
Keystone pipeline
Refusal to support the Iranian uprising in 2009
Shall we continue?
Sez you, of course.
