Posted on 03/07/2019 2:06:37 PM PST by Olog-hai
A surprisingly strong burst of job growth over the past year has led many economists to wonder: Where are all the workers coming from?
As recently as last spring, analysts had worried that hiring would slow as the pool of unemployed shrank. Many employers have complained for years that they could no longer find enough people to fill their open jobs.
Turns out they were both wrong.
The pace of hiring in 2018 was the most robust in three years, and for a surprising reason: Many more people have decided to look for work than experts had expected. The influx of those job seekers, if sustained, could help extend an economic expansion that is already the second-longest on record.
The growth in America’s workforce — made up of people either working or looking for work — has helped reverse an alarming consequence of the recession: The exit of millions of Americans from the job market. …
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The main streets of my little burg are covered with “Help Wanted” signs. Admittedly not $30/hour stuff, but not like it was during the reign of Caliph Baraq.
We have idiot FReepers saying we need a bunch of illegals and H1-Bs to keep the country going.
NOT to be expected from the leftist MSM.
Are they still around????
I got ROCKED about 3 years ago for saying that H1 nonsense had to go.
Haven’t seen them lately.
There’s a LOT of people on SSDI for “depression”
I get depression bouts so i’m not knocking it.
But if you’re getting 1,000 a month and suddenly you can make 3200 a month even, that’ll pull you off the sidelines and even off of SSDI.
My GUESS would be we will see SSDI numbers drop.
The influx of those job seekers, if sustained, could help extend an economic expansion that is already the second-longest on record...
Somebody at AP just got fired! :)
Time to Get Off the Couch, America!
Facts never stood in the way of RINOs trying to sell out their country.
“Surprisingly”?
Yes, from the sidelines in HYDERABAD. And Guanghzhou.
Many more people have decided to look for work than experts had expected. The influx of those job seekers, if sustained, could help extend an economic expansion that is already the second-longest on record
Many more people have decided to look for work than experts had expected.
Then are they really “experts”? Will you keep quoting their every utterance, AP?
We have idiot FReepers saying we need a bunch of illegals and H1-Bs to keep the country going.
Facts never stood in the way of RINOs trying to sell out their country.
Under Obama there were 95 million out of the workforce. That’s a pretty good sized pool of unemployed to draw from.
Merit AND a 50% wage increase over prevailing wages.
Otherwise it is only meant to depress wages and the person wasn’t critical.
Merit AND a 50% wage increase over prevailing wages.
Otherwise it is only meant to depress wages and the person wasn’t critical.
I have always been haunted by the Invisible Hand discussed by Adam Smith...………………………………….
We have idiot FReepers saying we need a bunch of illegals and H1-Bs to keep the country going.
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There’s also no shortage of the sanctimonious here, wrapped in principles twisted, that will turn on Trump in a second. Their one-trick-pony valiant convictions eye off the ball illogical pearl-clutching, baby bath water idiocy will be the reason for our demise. Should it appear.
We need a pause of immigration to find our education needs and job needs. We don't need more anti-American invaders, legal or illegal.
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