Posted on 10/10/2014 5:30:32 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Minnesota job vacancies hit a 13-year high in the second quarter, with employers reporting nearly 84,700 job openings, state officials said Thursday.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) said about 56 percent of those job openings were in the seven-county Twin Cities area, with 44 percent in Greater Minnesota. Over the past year, outstate areas posted the strongest job growth.
DEED said the most common job vacancies were in the fields of health care and social assistance (19 percent of the total), retail (15 percent), accommodation and food service (12 percent), manufacturing (8 percent) and educational services (8 percent).
The midpoint wage of those 84,700 jobs was $12.05 an hour, meaning that half paid more, half paid less. DEED said 42 percent of the job vacancies were for part-time workers.
DEED commissioner Katie Clark Sieben said in a statement that the numbers "are good news for job seekers and reflect employer confidence in the economy."
Minnesota's unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent in August, tied for the sixth-lowest among the 50 states. Demographics played a role in that, as the labor force participation rate continues to fall, and workers who drop out of the workforce are not counted in the official rate.
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You pretend to want a job, and we’ll pretend to have one for you.
Next, we’ll hear that Detroit is “turning around” under the great leadership of Obama and the Big Government Dems. Who believes any of this Democrat media swill?
In other news, Al Franken will be re-elected Senator from Minnesota. All you need to know about that brain dead State.
> You pretend to want a job, and we’ll pretend to have one for you.
Perfectly put.
Bring back all of Somali jihadis that left Minnesota to fight in Syria.
(I know, I know... TurboZamboni says “no thank you”.)
I can’t take credit. I stole that one from the old USSR.
“We’ll pretend to work and you pretend to pay us.”
They'll claim this lack of workers is why we need to "regularize" illegal aliens (aka amnesty, citizenship, etc). BS.
If you read between the lines:
...the most common job vacancies were in the fields of health care and social assistance...
aka government jobs on the taxpayer dime, giving away services paid for by taxpayers....
Or...
...commissioner Katie Clark Sieben said in a statement that the numbers "are good news for job seekers and reflect employer confidence in the economy."
Well, that's the story/message they'd like to have out there but not so fast....
...as the labor force participation rate continues to fall, and workers who drop out of the workforce are not counted in the official rate.
Ah, some of the statistical legerdemain revealed. If you just chop off a big enough chunk of out of work people you can push the unemployment numbers down to where-ever you want. If you call up some buddies at companies and ask how many positions they'd like to fill (note, not how many actual openings they have or are willing to hire right now) you can make it sound like there are lots of job openings. Hey, every business would like to expand and grow market share etc. but... Who is actually conducting interviews right now? Hmmm?
At $12.05 / hour you’d need 2 full time jobs just to afford to live in your mom’s basement. (Hint at why those jobs are not getting filled.)
The jobs are not getting filled because a lot of Minnesotans don’t want to work.
there should be no job openings according to Odumbo - everyone is working that is why the unemployment number is declining. Right no job openings. Some people rather be unemployed than working.
Take the example of my neighbor offered a $15.00/hr job in Watersmeet Michigan. When offered the position informed he had to do drug testing - produced medical marijuana card - job offer was retracted. Drove out of the parking lot, and was cited by the tribal police for driving under the influence. Now he has to spend time in jail and pay 1000.00 in fines too. The joys of stupid neighbors. Now the Rent a center is showing up at his door to collect the money owed for the rental of furniture, TV and laptop computers. Instead the items are being removed from the home.
10,000 lakes and a billion mosquitos. What’s not to love?
I have noticed that most of the fast food restaurants and grocery stores are hiring now, I assume these are the openings.
“The midpoint wage of those 84,700 jobs was $12.05 an hour, meaning that half paid more, half paid less. DEED said 42 percent of the job vacancies were for part-time workers.”
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Meaning that, adjusted for the REAL rate of inflation the hourly pay midpoint was worth about as much as the fifty cents an hour I was paid to maintain the tennis court at my high school after school hours back in 1961. $12.05 an hour is diddly squat now and half those jobs pay LESS and 42 percent are part-time which means what now, less than 30 hours? Probably only a vanishingly small number of these “jobs” pay enough to even be called real jobs and any that do require a master’s degree. You need a bachelor’s degree now to get a job a high school graduate would have laughed at fifty years ago.
Some clown of an “analyst” once wrote a piece claiming there should be no unemployment because there were more jobs advertised on the internet than people looking for jobs. Anyone who knows anything knows that any real job on the internet is listed in hundreds of different places and the vast majority are not jobs at all but “opportunities” which in many cases are just an opportunity to give someone your money. There are probably not enough real job openings on the net to employ the population of one medium sized city.
With full time defined as thirty hours a week you are about right. I sometimes think well, I don’t make a lot of money these days and my wife and I are okay but then I look at the facts and between the two of us we bring in more than the median household income and we have no debt. No mortgage, no rent, no car payments, no credit card balances, none of that and we still don’t have money to toss around. If a young man wanted to start out now and buy a home, get married and start a family with his wife staying home to raise the kids he would be strained to the limit trying to do it on an annual income equal to what my father earned in his entire working lifetime and he raised four sons with my mother staying home. One must consider a lot of things that are usually overlooked such as the fact that if a person wants his children to have any kind of education now he must plan on sending them to PRIVATE SCHOOL from day one and that alone will cost more than it used to cost to support a family not all that long ago. The STARTING MSRP for the LOWEST PRICE 2015 model Ford F150 pickup truck is now over $25000.00! That is the bottom end, the top of the line is double that. A low end Ford pickup now costs what would have bought a quarter section farm with a nice house, outbuildings and equipment when I was a schoolboy.
I don’t believe in the minimum wage concept, I think it is a farce but those who DO claim to believe that it accomplishes something look stupid to me asking for fifteen or less an hour. If they really think it works they should be asking for at least a hundred an hour. Fifty an hour for a FORTY hour a week job now would be just a get by job for someone supporting a family without government assistance.
“McJobs”, but only when a republican is governor.
42 percent of the job vacancies are part-time with the rest fulltime 29/hr jobs....
...with employers reporting nearly 84,700 job openings... the most common job vacancies were in the fields of health care and social assistance (19 percent of the total), retail (15 percent), accommodation and food service (12 percent), manufacturing (8 percent) and educational services (8 percent). The midpoint wage of those 84,700 jobs was $12.05 an hour... 42 percent... were for part-time workers... Minnesota's unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent in August...
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