Employers demand for employees is down because of Obamacare.
Employers would hire more if they weren't spending so much money on the paperwork required by ridiculous regulations.
Translation: Companies aren't hiring.
Employers demand for employees is down because of outsourcing and also the practice of downsizing and forcing the rest of the employees to pick up the slack of their laid off Co-workers...often with no extra compensation.
The whole problem with the economy is directly related to that. Less people working means less people with money in their pockets, less money means less spending, less spending means less products sold and less services rendered, less products sold and less services rendered means less profit, less profit means more people laid off.... Rinse and Repeat.
You see, the problem is that the common laborer has been reduced from a once valuable, decently paid asset to a business, to the role of "you ought to be glad you just have a job...get the **** back to work!" kind of role. A lot of the Conservatives among us want to further kneecap the workforce by getting rid of the Minimum wage and other labor protections.
They are so bent on this ideology that they are blind to the fact that they are shooting themselves in the foot and hurting their often hurting themselves in the long run....which is another issue I have with this Neo-economic business model.... there doesn't seem to be a long term strategy(unless that strategy is exactly to reduce the American Workforce into a slave labor situation like China). It's all about the quick buck now...worry about tomorrow when it gets here.