Giving Americans more time to write poetry, learn to play the guitar and paint still life paintings. Whadda country!
Yes, they are. They are also adapting to the new normal in the employment market. This is our future, and we can thank the democrats who voted for Obamacare for it.
Those of us who have saved? Many of us are trying to stay out of the principle while interest rates are so low. Others are spending down their savings very quickly. They have no way to restore that money, so will end their final years in poverty.
The delayed giving the reason as long as they could, and then suggested it as a speculative possibility.
If Bush had been responsible, it would have been in the headline and the first sentence.
The pressholes trying to muddy the waters.
Number one reason is the ObamaCare disaster followed by government regulation making it no longer prudent to hire full time workers.
Sure. Just keep adding more mandates and taxes to punish employers for hiring. What could go wrong?
The sad thing is that these underemployed people will keep voting Democratic because they perceive its the party that cares about the Little Guy.
Fox had a report on this morning with the startling news that only 47% of American workers had a full-time job, an all-time low. Can this be true? If so, that certainly should be trotted out by the Republicans in every election year political ad.
If we made jobs in congress and the administration more TEMPORARY, then we’d get back to permanent jobs for the rest of us.
The part-time work-force...
Soon, the highest paid people in the population will the the ones collecting Social Security. But, in a couple of decades, the payments to SS recipients will also be dropping, because, the number of hours worked will have dropped the earned payout in SS benefits.
Add 650,000 DoD nurses, engineers, maintainers, cops, and tons of other professions to the stats as they get furloughed starting tomorrow.
Soon we will be just like France. Oh joy.
Ghetto, the new normal.
Ah yes, “temporary agencies” ... they deserve a special kind of affection.
I have worked as a temporary agency, prior to my retirement, from 1994 to 2008, with a short hiatus of working for the U.S. Census 2000, and working for almost 3 years with the Department of Veterans Affairs.
I have worked for Manpower, Kelly Services, and a few more local agencies between Portland, Oregon and New Orleans, Louisiana.
I have also worked for agencies who receive grants, and their peculiar means of financial existence.
To the individual seeking full-time employment, newspapers are flooded with advertisements from these agencies, and even find themselves listed as ‘full time employment’ on state ‘works’ webpages.
They lie with their advertisements, just to build their ‘prospective employee base’, while those legitimately seeking work, are coupled to these agencies, requiring the job seeker to religiously call the agencies weekly, to testify that they ‘are able and ready to work’. They do not provide employment. Should the prospective employee and the temporary agency interviewer not have a good day of the month, (harrumph), you have just hit their black ball list.
I have witnessed this kraken spread their arms across the sea of job openings, and foul the pursuit of many a good job for qualified folks.
Lastly, should you be anywhere near the age of 45, you are not considered mentally pliable, and just might be on their lists, making the telephone calls, and just remaining in limbo, because of your age.