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America Is In Full Employment, So Why Aren‘t We Celebrating?
The Easton Caller ^ | August 12, 2019

Posted on 08/12/2019 7:19:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

These are prosperous times in America. The country is plump with jobs. Out of every 100 people who want to work, more than 96 of them have jobs. This is what economists consider full employment.

The economy has grown for almost 10 years, making it one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history. And over that time, the job market has come back. It grew slowly at first, then steadily, finally reaching a point at which there are many more openings than job seekers.

Unemployment has reached . The jobless rate for Hispanics has never been lower; the past two years have been the best job market ever for African Americans. Wages are starting to rise — and, more significantly, for the lowest-paid workers. That may not endure, but it‘s a reversal of the long-term trend where the most highly paid workers were also the best rewarded. The job market today is so hot that groups that were sort of on the margins also are finding opportunities — including people with disabilities or a prison record.

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To: Lumper20

We need to stop electing people with no real world experience. Most of our politicians that are lawyers didn’t even practice law or did for only a short time.

We need people who have run a business, been successful in a career or the military. We don’t need people who have never done anything but be a politician.


21 posted on 08/12/2019 8:20:22 PM PDT by Tammy8
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I celebrate and am thankful for all of the people in my life who have made it difficult for me. They remind me of what I don’t want to be.


22 posted on 08/12/2019 8:24:47 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Heaven has gates, walls and immigration policy but Hell has an open border policy. Food for thought.)
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To: Tammy8

You are dead on. You get my vote.


23 posted on 08/12/2019 9:18:47 PM PDT by Lumper20 (Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and AFGE union insurance..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Again is this based on the ‘Unemployment’ (people ‘ON Unemployment’) statistic versus the actual numberof people who are unemployed who would want to be employed.

Sorry its time to tell everyone the truth


24 posted on 08/13/2019 12:04:32 AM PDT by elbook
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Who says Americans are not celebrating?

I can’t count how many conversations I have been in or overheard about the job market and construction projects. I’d count those as very positive and, celebratory.


25 posted on 08/13/2019 3:00:34 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because, “ORANGEMAN BAD! (Sniffle!)”


26 posted on 08/13/2019 5:09:58 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The economy has grown for almost 10 years, “

Note the lie, by including the obama abomination.


27 posted on 08/13/2019 10:53:10 AM PDT by Oatka
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To: Tammy8
We need to stop electing people with no real world experience. Most of our politicians that are lawyers didn’t even practice law or did for only a short time.

We need people who have run a business, been successful in a career or the military. We don’t need people who have never done anything but be a politician

. . . which is why we need not only term limits, but a 35-year minimum age for all elective offices.

That way, absence of experience in the real world would be hard to gloss over. Granted, Bernie Sanders wouldn’t have been affected by that rule, but . . .


28 posted on 08/13/2019 12:02:47 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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