Labor force participation increase is biggest since 2003 as many Americans finally get back to work

CNBC ^ | 03/09/2018 | Jeff Cox

[Alberta's Child]

Right -- thanks. But as you said, even the Social Security figures don't necessarily give an accurate indication of how many people are not working because they're fully retired. There are two anomalies in these figures:

1. People who are collecting Social Security but are still working well into their 70s or even their 80s.

2. People who are collecting Social Security and are retired "involuntarily" -- i.e., they'd still be working at their last job if it were up to them, but they've been downsized out of their last job and they're able to retire on their nest egg out of necessity.

[Zathras]

Agreed.
The federally mandated features which are constantly creeping into cars seem to add 1000/feature.

[central_va]

"If we continue this type of [payrolls] growth this is going to be the catalyst for a wage spike."

Gee, how horrible! Rising wages in the USA? Terrible. /sacrasm

[central_va]

Tariffs only help manufacturing areas. When did economic stupidity become the norm around here?

[central_va]

I think a ton of rolled steel is WAY less than $700.00

[CodeToad]

Don’t be spooked. The tariffs have a very positive result.

[xzins]

I agree. I’ve discovered that only 1 ton of steel goes into the average car and not 2 tons, so cut in half all my estimates. About $175 increase per car.

[xzins]

Could be. I went to a market page and looked up numbers, but there was variety of prices depending on type.