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
Oh, the typical Right wing dishonesty by giving misleading stats to prove a lie.
As any honest person knows there are TWO (2) kinds of part-time workers, those who only want to work PT, and those who would rather work full-time. It is, of course, the workers who only want to work PT who are increasing since Obama, mainly Boomers who want to keep working but want to cut back their hours. The workers who would rather work FT are on their way down from its peak in the Bush Depression of 9,216,000 (before Obamacare was signed, BTW) to 7,103,000 now!!!!!!
So in reality the Obama economy has been very, very good to PT workers who would rather work FT, over 2 million no longer have to work PT. Even if you dishonestly want to blame the effects of the Bush Depression that carried over into the beginning of Obama's first term on Obama, as the Right always does, PT for economic reasons is still down over a million!!!!!!! So no matter how you spin it, Obama has been very, very good to PT workers who want to work FT.
That is why the Right has NO CHOICE but to be dishonest and deliberately mislead the gullible by including PT workers who ONLY want to work PT in their deliberately misleading stats.