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Waiters And Bartenders Rise To Record, As Manufacturing Workers Drop Most Since 2009
Zero Hedge ^
| 04/01/2016
| Tyler Durden
Posted on 04/01/2016 7:28:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On the surface, the March jobs reported was better than expected... except for manufacturing workers. As shown in the chart below, in the past month, a disturbing 29,000 manufacturing jobs were lost. This was the single biggest monthly drop in the series going back to December 2009.
But not all is lost: as has been the case for virtually every month during the "recovery", virtually every laid off manufacturing worker could find a job as a waiter: in March, the workers in the "Food services and drinking places" category, aka waiters, bartenders and minimum wage line cooks, rose again to a new record high of 11,307,000 workers, an increase of 25K in the month, offsetting virtually all lost manufacturing jobs.
This is how the two job series have looked since the start of 2015: 24k manufacturing jobs have been lost in the past 14 months compared to an increas of 365K food service workers.
And here is the longer-term, going back to the start of the crisis in December 2007: please do not "peddle fiction" upon seeing this chart.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jobs; manufacturing; waiters
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To: SeekAndFind
But go ahead, GOPe. Keep pushing the same economic policies you’ve been embracing since GHWB.
To: SeekAndFind
Gee. maybe Mr. Trump knows what he’s talking about.
The rest of the Common Core crop of politicians sure don’t.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:35:53 AM PDT
by
MichaelCorleone
(Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:35:54 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
An even worse problem is spiritual.
The ideas that have us believing, falsely, that we can’t do this, or can’t do that, so why try — those are the ideas that have us beckoning on stopgaps to stop a gap that didn’t even need to be there.
If Donald does nothing else, it will be to burst that mirage. Make America great again is a summons to all who have a stake in this land... yes even its foreigners.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:38:11 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: SeekAndFind
This is how you say it...”What’ll it be, hmmm?”
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:38:19 AM PDT
by
avenir
(I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
To: SeekAndFind
Daddy I want to be a waiter when I grow up. Will you send me to get a $250,000 fine arts degree so I can do that? Please?
For a graduate degree I want to go to bar tending school so I can get a better job.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:39:34 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: Sequoyah101
Robust arts depend on robust industry. As long as it doesn’t get into resolutely biting the hand that feeds it, arts are a wonderful pursuit. Trouble is, too often today, it does. Arts have forgotten who was paying for them, such as industry moguls.
If you’re going to bite the hand that has been feeding you, at least find a different hand to feed you first. Otherwise you will look pretty stupid in the end.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:42:28 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Sequoyah101
Daddy: Go become an apprentice for Uncle Jose. He’ll teach you the ropes.
To: SeekAndFind
Or, if you can’t lick um... join um.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:44:54 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: SeekAndFind
Eating and drinking our way to oblivion.
To: Resolute Conservative
Kind of how the show “Cabaret” was about the pre-Hitler Weimar Republic.
It’s not necessarily wrong to party in the face of doom, but if you haven’t invited God to your party, then it might be your last party.
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:55:49 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Kind of how the show Cabaret was about the pre-Hitler Weimar Republic. Right now I feel like that poor old man when everyone around him was singing "Tomorrow Belongs to Me."
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posted on
04/01/2016 7:57:01 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Ouch that had to be cruel, but there’s an old story about need and greed and heaven and hell.
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posted on
04/01/2016 8:00:31 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: SeekAndFind
This is partially why we have an economy that’s creating jobs but still under performing
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posted on
04/01/2016 8:03:04 AM PDT
by
LMAO
(I know Hillary and I think she'd make a great president or Vice President. Don Trump 2008)
To: HiTech RedNeck
More beer to cry in? Indeed!
When does Obummer claim credit?
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posted on
04/01/2016 8:05:31 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(If you like your part-time job, you can keep your part-time job. Vote Bolshecrat.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Time for another beer summmit?
To: SeekAndFind
Wait ‘til we all place our orders through a screen at our table...waiters will be out but it will be boom times for busboys...er buspersons.
To: LMAO
Under performing? You are being far too kind. This economy is flatter than a board. It has not grown since at least 2007. The stock market has done less than a 3% annual rate of return since January of 2008.
This economy is DEAD. The statistics are clearly cooked. Anyone with half a brain knows that. The feds and the media pukes have been pissing on our feet and telling us it is raining for years.
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posted on
04/01/2016 8:35:17 AM PDT
by
Sequoyah101
(It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
To: Sequoyah101; central_va
This old joke goes back to the passing of NAFTA: Some day we’ll all have jobs delivering each other’s pizzas.
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posted on
04/01/2016 8:47:08 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
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