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Payroll employment increases by 263,000 in April; unemployment rate declines to 3.6%

foolardi said:
Just a few weeks ago Trump's Rasmussen Presidential Approval went from 50 % to 51 %
to 53%.It was only until last week that he started to drop.Based on all the hysteria manufactured by
a Corrupted MSM regarding Mueller stuff.
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Even if you go with an outlier like Rasmussen, you'll see the exact same trend as you'll see in the 538 average for likely registered voters, which is that in spite of the consistently strong economy that he inherited, Trump's approval change has been completely flat. This means his approval is already being propped up by the strong economy. There's no more room for him to go up unless he does something else, like, say, act like an adult. If he changed his behavior for the better you'd see him gain at least an additional 15 points.
 
Conservative said:
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How about it radicals?? Tax and Spend doesn't work, tax cuts and pro growth policies including cutting red tape works. CNN has Trump approval rating on the economy at 56% and rising. Why can't you people celebrate success and quit promoting misery

263,000 JOBS CREATED!! WAGES UP!! SHARED PROSPERITY!
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And let's not forget they also reported wages grew at above 3% for the ninth straight month. Wages had not REACH 3% growth since April of 2009 (hmmm - what happened between April of 2009 and now?)
 
Conservative said:
LOL, yep, everything that comes from BLS.gov, BEA.gov, and Treasury.org are false is trumped by MSNBC, the Clinton News Network, and NYTimes. Amazing how that works these days.

US job growth surges in April, beating expectations with 263,000 added | Fox Business
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Well yeah, definitely fake. Remember when Trump stood on a public united with Putin and Russia, against the entire American Intelligence community? According to the base, Trump was right and the entire American Intelligence community was wrong. So anything from the government is fake noooozzzz! Or has all that changed now that we're talking about a government agency that supports Trump? Dang, Conservative outrage changes so often, it's impossible to keep up with which side an issue it is directed at that day.
 
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Here's a little additional context and analysis
Friday’s report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the economy created 263,000 new jobs in April, which was well above economists’ forecasts.
The unemployment rate, which is now 3.6 percent, is the lowest it’s been since Richard Nixon was in his first year as president. Wages are growing, too. They were up 3.2 percent in April, marking the ninth straight month of 3 percent-plus gains. As the White House Council of Economic Advisers notes: “Prior to 2018, nominal average hourly wage gains had not reached 3 percent since April 2009.”
Yet, two days before this latest jobs report came out, the Fed said that “On a 12-month basis, overall inflation and inflation for items other than food and energy have declined and are running below 2 percent.”
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Oh, and:

ot only has the economy shown no sign of slowing down, growth has been accelerating under Trump, which is remarkable given that he inherited an economy that had been slowing down in President Obama’s last year in office, and that was already long in tooth as far as expansions go — the recovery had started 7 ½ years before Trump took office.
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And finally, for the "he inherited that crowd:

Yet, in the 28 months since Trump took office, the private sector has created almost 5.2 million new jobs. By contrast, in Obama’s last 28 months in office, jobs in the private sector climbed only 3.2 million.
The accelerated rate of job growth under Trump is widespread, too. Manufacturing jobs climbed 470,000 since Trump took office. They went up by a meager 18,000 in Obama’s last 28 moths in office. Goods-producing jobs shot up by 1.2 million after Trump took office, compared with a paltry 241,000 gain for Obama. Construction jobs climbed 629,000 under Trump, after a 352,000 gain under Obama.
Over those same time frames, the number of unemployed dropped by 1.7 million under Trump, compared with a measly 327,000 decline for Obama.
Take a look at GDP growth and you see the same phenomenon.
Year-over-year quarterly GDP growth has been steadily increasing under Trump.
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Cardinal said:
There's no more room for him to go up unless he does something else, like, say, act like an adult. If he changed his behavior for the better you'd see him gain at least an additional 15 points.
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Trump is obviously aware of this. His advisors must have told him over and over. I suspect he's afraid of losing part of his base, which must terrify him. As we've seen demonstrated over and over, right now, no matter what he does, no matter how racist or disgusting his words or actions, his base will stick with him. If he loses even 20% of his base, and doesn't make it up on the other side, I think there's a good chance he would be impeached. Republicans won''t fear him if he drops into the mid to high 20s., and you know all the conservative brown-nosers like Cruz must be dying to have a go at him.
 
Having low unemployment is great but it doesn't address the larger problem. While many have a job, they don't have a well paying job. Many are in debt, can barely afford their necessities and live in what could be considered almost poverty.

Now this isn't a knock on Trump, every president has stood back and watched this problem get worse and worse, but it is far more important than 4%, or 3%, or 5% unemployment. Those that ARE working are mostly getting screwed.
 
Cardinal said:
Even if you go with an outlier like Rasmussen, you'll see the exact same trend as you'll see in the 538 average for likely registered voters, which is that in spite of the consistently strong economy that he inherited, Trump's approval change has been completely flat. This means his approval is already being propped up by the strong economy. There's no more room for him to go up unless he does something else, like, say, act like an adult. If he changed his behavior for the better you'd see him gain at least an additional 15 points.
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I get it act more like the adult Obama.Who ran around D.C. with his cartoonish
Benghazi Act about a video.Then there's " not a smidgen of corruption " in his IRS.
If you like your Doctor and Health plan you can keep it and Premiums will go down.
That the Tea Party are Teab*gg*rs and for cops to stop acting " stupidly ".
Real adult of Obama to never { not once } show up at a scheduled Press Conference
on time.
Trump was more than 5 pts. higher a few weeks ago in Approval at the same
time as Obama in his first term.
Granted Trump is a Boaster.And likes to use big adjectives.
But Obama was a flat out Alinskite.All Doublespeak and/or Groupthink.
Keep in mind how adult-like it was of Obama to declare if he had a son it would
be someone like Trayvon.His { Trayvon Martin's } tweets were up for less than a full day.
They were forced off the net.I think Eric Holder made the decision.
Those Trayvon tweets were just horrible.Very mean,raw and full of Misogynistic zeal.
If they were allowed to stay up for just a full week,instead less than a day c/o Breitbart
and The Daily Caller the little Trayvon { all 6'2" of the High school suspended brat who
wanted to join a Gang } would have been dropped like a rotten apple by those like
Al Sharpton.
 
MTAtech said:
A week ago you were saying that the Fed should lower interest rates. I would think that you should back off of that call.


When Obama was President, you wanted to raise interest rates when unemployment was 9%. Now, you want to cut rates when unemployment is at 3.6%, as long as Trump is in power.

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Trump hasn't completely screwed up Obama's upward trend. Of course, Trump didn't have to turn the ship around, and he gave away $trillion+ to keep it going, and he needed to trash the environment to keep it going.

It's interesting watching so many people willing to watch their children and grandchildren have higher rates of cancer, so long as they can feel like "winners" today. It's particularly interesting in that most of them aren't even benefiting, they're willing to watch the cancer rates go up for their children, so their leaders can profit. Crazy times, crazy people.
 
Verax said:
Having low unemployment is great but it doesn't address the larger problem. While many have a job, they don't have a well paying job. Many are in debt, can barely afford their necessities and live in what could be considered almost poverty.

Now this isn't a knock on Trump, every president has stood back and watched this problem get worse and worse, but it is far more important than 4%, or 3%, or 5% unemployment. Those that ARE working are mostly getting screwed.
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What I’ve been seeing is a lot of hopping from one job to a higher paying one. There are a million more job openings than there are people who are recorded as unemployed, so depending on the industry and willingness to move, potentially lots of opportunities.
 
The economy continues to boom...and all the idiot left can do is weep and wail in desperation to try to find ways to destroy it.


Stupid ****ing morons.
 
foolardi said:
I get it act more like the adult Obama.Who ran around D.C. with his cartoonish
Benghazi Act about a video.Then there's " not a smidgen of corruption " in his IRS.
If you like your Doctor and Health plan you can keep it and Premiums will go down.
That the Tea Party are Teab*gg*rs and for cops to stop acting " stupidly ".
Real adult of Obama to never { not once } show up at a scheduled Press Conference
on time.
Trump was more than 5 pts. higher a few weeks ago in Approval at the same
time as Obama in his first term.
Granted Trump is a Boaster.And likes to use big adjectives.
But Obama was a flat out Alinskite.All Doublespeak and/or Groupthink.
Keep in mind how adult-like it was of Obama to declare if he had a son it would
be someone like Trayvon.His { Trayvon Martin's } tweets were up for less than a full day.
They were forced off the net.I think Eric Holder made the decision.
Those Trayvon tweets were just horrible.Very mean,raw and full of Misogynistic zeal.
If they were allowed to stay up for just a full week,instead less than a day c/o Breitbart
and The Daily Caller the little Trayvon { all 6'2" of the High school suspended brat who
wanted to join a Gang } would have been dropped like a rotten apple by those like
Al Sharpton.
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There's a lot to unpack there, but ignoring most of that, you're aware that Trump's attitude is, uh...brash. And I understand that you like that in him, but it turns off a lot of the voters, and that's how a super strong economy still can't manage to lift his approval above 43%. If you like Trump just as he is then that's fine, but you also have to be okay with his approval staying at 43%.
 
And yet Rump is stuck at 45% approval rate. The economy will not help Rump in Nov 2020.
 
Verax said:
Having low unemployment is great but it doesn't address the larger problem. While many have a job, they don't have a well paying job. Many are in debt, can barely afford their necessities and live in what could be considered almost poverty.

Now this isn't a knock on Trump, every president has stood back and watched this problem get worse and worse, but it is far more important than 4%, or 3%, or 5% unemployment. Those that ARE working are mostly getting screwed.
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Many are working two jobs to get by. While CEO of Disney collects $45 million a year but pay's his FL employees a paltry $11 an hour. The company keep their emplyees on part time to avoid health benefits. Are these Disney Employees tired of winning ?
 
Moon said:
What I’ve been seeing is a lot of hopping from one job to a higher paying one. There are a million more job openings than there are people who are recorded as unemployed, so depending on the industry and willingness to move, potentially lots of opportunities.
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I've seen the same thing, but this is mostly only happening in higher skilled jobs. Those in the top 20% are doing fine economically, this has always been the case. The problem is the bottom 80%, they are getting increasingly left behind and the farther down you go the worse these people are getting screwed. A person making $10 an hour at a bakery leaving for another job making $11 isn't going to be a game changer. They still don't have enough money to properly provide for themselves or their family. Even with both parents working it's often not nearly enough. You can say these people should get a better job, but not everyone can do that, even if they could, who would work these low paying jobs? Somebody has to.
 
Cardinal said:
There's a lot to unpack there, but ignoring most of that, you're aware that Trump's attitude is, uh...brash. And I understand that you like that in him, but it turns off a lot of the voters, and that's how a super strong economy still can't manage to lift his approval above 43%. If you like Trump just as he is then that's fine, but you also have to be okay with his approval staying at 43%.
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What are your eyes sore.I just cited how Rasmussen's Presidential Tracking poll had
Trump Approval at 50 % then 51 % then 53 % in the space of 2 weeks.
This was 3 weeks ago.That at the this same period in Obama's first term Trump
was a full 5 pts. higher in Approval.
 
Conservative said:
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How about it radicals?? Tax and Spend doesn't work, tax cuts and pro growth policies including cutting red tape works. CNN has Trump approval rating on the economy at 56% and rising. Why can't you people celebrate success and quit promoting misery

263,000 JOBS CREATED!! WAGES UP!! SHARED PROSPERITY!
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Credit card economy. Check the deficit that cons dont care about anymore.

Sustainable or no?
 
Conservative said:
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How about it radicals?? Tax and Spend doesn't work, tax cuts and pro growth policies including cutting red tape works. CNN has Trump approval rating on the economy at 56% and rising. Why can't you people celebrate success and quit promoting misery

263,000 JOBS CREATED!! WAGES UP!! SHARED PROSPERITY!
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It's interesting to note your silence with respect to the household survey, where employment declined by 103k.

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Cherry picking statistics to push a partisan agenda is all you're good for.
 
Kushinator said:
It's interesting to note your silence with respect to the household survey, where employment declined by 103k.

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Cherry picking statistics to push a partisan agenda is all you're good for.
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The margin of error for one month change in the CPS employment is about +/- 500,000
So the decline in March and April is not statistically significant.
The change in the official employment numbers from the CES are statistically significant.

I’m too lazy to look up the exact numbers right now.
 
foolardi said:
What are your eyes sore.I just cited how Rasmussen's Presidential Tracking poll had
Trump Approval at 50 % then 51 % then 53 % in the space of 2 weeks.
This was 3 weeks ago.That at the this same period in Obama's first term Trump
was a full 5 pts. higher in Approval.
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It's 43.2%, and Obama at this point in his Presidency was 7.7 points above where Trump is now.

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How Popular Is Donald Trump? | FiveThirtyEight
 
pinqy said:
The margin of error for one month change in the CPS employment is about +/- 500,000
So the decline in March and April is not statistically significant.
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Yeah, i was using sarcasm to highlight someones history of cherry picking.

I’m too lazy to look up the exact numbers right now.
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Kushinator said:
I'm just pleased the partisan right once again accepts government employment data.
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You should be more pleased that the government doesnt have to present fabricated **** to make it look better than it was that the idiot left swallowed like good little muppets.
 
VanceMack said:
You should be more pleased that the government doesnt have to present fabricated **** to make it look better than it was that the idiot left swallowed like good little muppets.
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Ahhh, so you believe data releases under Obama were fabricated? If not, please clarify.
 
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