United States Employed Persons
Somebody’s not happy that Trump is having a great day and week.
Funny. My employer has over 300 job openings they can’t fill.
You can lead a horse to water...
When the government funds people for not working - when Millenials whine that they deserve 6 figures a year for slinging coffee while living in their moms basement (and whose probably getting social security from the government for her “child”) there’s no reason to work and this they stay in the 2nd column.
But to stop THAT problem is going to require some “hate speech”
This isn’t a news site, it is a webpage to promote this guys book!
The baby boom is retiring.
My ex wife is now making the best $$$ she has in 30 years.
Her voting for Clinton, Obama and Hillary didn’t get her this job.
Me voting for Donald Trump did.
I didn’t tell her that of course.
“Not in the labor force” includes all the retired and disabled folks, and the bums. So it’s a BS statistic.
But we’ve got more illegals working than ever!
Had to schedule a doctors appointment for my mom today, instead of music on the wait line they were running a help wanted request.
I dare this fool to invest heavily in shorting the market for the next 6 months.
“... the number of Americans categorized as “not in the labor force” has absolutely exploded since the last recession. Right now, that number is sitting at 95.577 million.”
Does that count children, retirees and others that have typically always been ‘not in the labor force’? What about those working under the table while collecting money from some government program?
That’s what happens when jobs become plentiful and people who had given up on working pour back onto the job-market - and people who have jobs quit to look for better opportunities which they think are out there......
Well, when you’re including illegal aliens who can’t LEGALLY hold a job, what do you expect?
In my conversation with hiring managers in the rock, mineral, asphalt and gravel industry, they are forced to slow down production and delivery due to lack of workers.
Since you made no comment am I to assume to buy this BS?
Utter crap
More people are working than ever before. Wages are up. Folks are coming back to the work force who had dropped out
How many of the 100 million are retired???
What planet are they from? The US economy is rapidly slowing? Really? With 3.2% economic growth in the last quarter and our best year of growth in about a decade?
My income has gone up by 1/3rd in the last year and a half. I get between 5 and 10 headhunters calling me every day. They ask if I have any friends who are in the industry and are qualified and I have to tell them no, all my friends have been snapped up already.
The difference between this economy and 2007-2015 is night and day.
But hey, good of them to notice that the government’s been lying about the real rate of unemployment....now that Obama is out of office.
The demographics of the baby boom retirees is part (not all) of the reason for the rise in the “not in the labor force” figure.
Another long term trend that has been growing since before the Obama administration is the rise in the “permanently” unemployed. That is not “retirees” but working age folks not counted as either “unemployed” or some employed category.
One factor that is part of that are the rising of state mandated “minimum” wages (increases job losses or never-hires among the least educated, least experienced, least skilled), Another is automation’s purge of jobs that will never come back (but in some cases were the only job since high school that a person [somtimes age 50+] ever had - leaving some not experienced in anything but a job that no longer exists).
I am not making any excuses for anyone. I only mention some of the reasons for a declining rate (as % of population) for the actively employed - demographics, laws, & automation.
United States Employed Persons
Americans “not in the labor force”
as in children? as in couples choosing a one income household? as in retirees or early retired?
I did not fully read the article but what i did read did not address how they decided the number of Americans “not in the labor force”
Maybe it includes south americans or north americans not USA citizens? plenty of people can be considered Ameicans “not in the labor force”.