U.S. Job Growth Is Strongest Since 1999
Unemployment Rate, 5.6% in December, Is Lowest Since 2008
U.S. Job Growth Is Strongest Since 1999 - WSJ
January 11, 2015
"""U.S. employers added to payrolls at a solid pace last month, a sign of steady momentum for the labor market after the strongest year of job growth in 15 years.....
Altogether, employers added 2.95 million jobs in 2014, the biggest calendar-year increase since the figure topped three million in 1999. """
Yes, nearly half of them in either white collar jobs or in "you want fries with that" positions. Nearly a trillion dollar blank check to create these jobs over 6 years and the middle class still lagging behind. We'll hear the praises for the raw numbers, which show that the group with the largest increase in job creation over the past year is the group the left loves to demonize and tax unfairly. Yet they love the next highest group, the service industry people, because these people don't vote unless someone lights up a phoney rainbow in their skulls and because they are most easily manipulated by feel-good, rhetorical politics that has no basis in reality.
So we would be better off not adding 3,000,000 jobs in 2014 and having these people do what? Go on SNAP cards and welfare?
Did you read the article linked to this post? It was from the Wall Street Journal which is loathe to report good economic news under Obama's watch.
Before we jump off from wiping the sheen from the numbers as you seem wont to do, bama's own labor department says that there are still record highs of people out of the workforce, and in 2014 there were, at one time or another, more than 9 million unemployed - so i'm sure there are close to 6 million who are unimpressed by these numbers. After trillions in jobs programs given to bama, hiring a 1/3 of those unemployed also looks a little weak. Then to your rhetorical reply, "whattya want, have them go on da welfare?!" Well, lets look at that, dependency breath. In Jan 2009, the year America began it's worst period in history since the Civil War, there were, according to bama's DHHS people, you know, the ones implementing bamacare, there were 3.9 million people receiving federal TANF (welfare) payments (after it's filtered through state coffers), in December 2014, there were still 3.5 million receiving da welfare (in this form). Where's their recovery?