Job creation misses big in September
The unemployment rate has been declining steadily, but that has come in significant part due to the lowest labor force participation rate since the late 1970s. The participation rate plunged to 62.4 percent in September.
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
That's nice...now take a risk and come down from your ivory tower and talk to those mere serfs you are so afraid of and find out the real story. I promise they won't hurt you....as long as you don't say something stupid and piss them off.
What's your point? Those "job creators" having the lowest sustained tax "burden" since before Harding/Coolidge's great depression, aren't giving US a good return on investment???
I'm lost....
You keep attacking the rich and republicans on grounds that if Republicans hold office there are no jobs being crated and if there are rich people less jobs are created.
Where I get lost is you post fake images of massive job losses under Bush and incredible job growth under Obama... Despite the rich being far richer and there being a Republican Senate/House. Yes under Bush it was a Democrat Senate and House and under Clinton it was a Republican Senate and house...
You then called the 1930's depression Harding/Coolidge's despite Hoover and FDR being in power. Also Wilson left Harding with a depression before Harding was elected and it took 18 months to get out of a depression and into a booming economy.
My point is you flip back and forth very quickly on what branches of Government are responsible for a recession, depression or low jobs... You always seem to find a way to blame Republicans and not Democrats, every single time.
I'm not a Republican nor do I defend them, simply pointing out that yer a race baiting, clueless, economically ignorant partisan hack.
Even RW (one of the internet dumbest ******* people) blamed having a Republican house/Senate as the problem... Yet I doubt he blames the House/Senate being Democrat for the 2008 crash.