After four years of Obama, we have more people in poverty than ever before, and the highest poverty rate in 50 years. We have a 9% increase in healthcare premiums, food prices up 6.2% and gas prices through the roof. At the same time, since the beginning of the "recovery" median household incomes have actually dropped 4.8% and an unprecedented number of people have thrown up their arms and left the workforce altogether. It's time to end Obama's war on the middle class, don't you think?
And still up by 250K since the start fo the year. Some pople don't appear to realize that the labor force is like the people on the bus in the grade school song -- they go up and down all over town. Over the last 18 months, the labor force has gone up ten times and has gone down eight times. Guess when right-wing clowns chime in.
They don't use a model. They count up the actual number of initial claims filed. Revisions typically come from corrections to late or inaccurate reporting by states. The advance number for August 25 for instance was 309,923 where the revised number was 312,111. I don't think that's a decrease. The advance for August 18 was 310,121 while the revised was 311,787. I don't think that's a decrease either. Odd how your reports and the actual facts are so consistently at odds with each other.
Even if there were a reason to believe that the number on non-farm payrolls should move in lockstep with the civilian non-institutionalized population, your math would suck. The population is not growing as fast as you apparently think it is.
LOL! The VALUE of US manufacturing output has continued to soar. What's declined since the mid-1990's s the number of manufacturing JOBS. That same decline has been experienced in ALL of the world's significant manufacturing economies. China in fact has lost more manufacturing jobs since 1995 than the US presently has. US job losses by contrast have been about average. People need to get used to the fact that -- like agriculture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries -- manufacturing has lost its ability to provide jobs for the masses. Get used to it.
You are correct - I mistyped.
Denial of reality. A right-wing staple. The LFPR has seen recent declines in large part because of the trainwreck that Republicans (again) made of the economy. Still haven't apologized for it either. The clowns. Then there are the longer term parts about increasing retirements and the how the lifetime wage premium paid for education has been rising while the value of real pay and benefits has been declining. Translation: more people have been going to school and staying there longer.
Yes, that's why they have such a big knowledge advantage over some bunch of stumbling, bumbling right-wingers mindlessly loitering on the sidewalk.
Potty-mouth girly-talk is not very impressive. Where's the beef?
Talk to some qualified labor economists instead of a bunch of media airheads. The number you refer to is and has been declining for a good while. I'm sure you think that Freedom & Liberty® demand that laws be enacted to keep Americans from retiring when they want to, to keep Americans from going to or staying in school when they want to, and to keep Americans from staying home to raise their small children when they want to. But those laws thankfully don't exist, and I don't think even your unqualified Bumbler-Boy Willard intends to pass any, so your just plain stuck with the 130K number being an obviously lame and out-of-date overstatement.
LOL!!! Overall, America was at one of its historic economic high points in January 2001, and in just eight short years, all of that was destroyed by the ignorance of greedy Republican laissez-faire free-market cowboy capitalism, leaving us to deal with the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. Against all odds, we have been in an overall recovery since mid-2009 with the lagging variable of employment not surprisingly lagging. The recovery has of course been attacked and undermined by Republicans at every step along the way. Republicans openly admit that they see partisan interests as superior to national interests and are more than willing to see millions of (non-rich) Americans suffer in the hope that such a situation might buy them a few extra votes.
"Subpar" is being a little generous. George W Bush had the worst jobs performance of any President since WWII. Eight years of miserable disgrace and failure across the board. That's all that Bush provided by any proper sort of math.
Manufactured right-wing rot no matter how many times it is bot-copied and pasted. A trip through the actual history would reveal that this Depression began in January 1920, while Harding (like W, consistently ranked as one of the worst Presidents in US history) arrived in office in March 1921. This was long after the post-WWI spending cuts of the FY 1921 and FY 1922 budgets had been set by the Wilson administration. Harding did indeed cut tax RATES during his brief term, but like Reagan in 1986, he also expanded the tax base, creating a net tax INCREASE. You didn't mention that part. Nor did you mention the massive gold inflows from war-ravaged Europe that actually did play a signficant role in speeding up our conversion from war-time to peace-time production, thereby resolving the central issue of the depression. Just more facts that tend to get left in the wake of the mighty ship of phony historical revisionism as it steams through.
LOL!!! How many times do you want to be beat up for this same old crock of crap?
Things such as growth and change are relative concepts to start out with. Bigger THAN something. Different FROM something. See how that works? This is why the grownups often use relative terms when talking about these sorts of things.