So we have a recovery that’s creating jobs but still losing the middle class.
Lose your good paying with benefits full time oil patch job and get a part time bar tending job will do that
And I bet the majority of jobs gained were part time.
All moving FORWARD according to plan.
Vote Trump and Stop the madness.
We’re slowly laying off manufacturing people but it’s through attrition and retirement.
A lot of what’s made is being automated slowly.
Exactly the wrong thing that should be happening. Manufacturing creates wealth. Service industries do not. This is bad, not good.
Making the manufacturing sector more healthy by reducing the suffocating regulations and restrictions combined with lowering the corporate income taxes could make them competitive internationally. It might even encourage more domestic raw materials production. Tariffs would make things worse by awarding inefficiency and ballooning raw materials costs.
Retail?
Walmart jobs will pay for food and gas money. For normal things such as insurance, mortgages, raising families, investments, having babies, and car payments etc, you’ll need several more full time retail jobs.
Looking sharp America.
I’d like to know how many of the drinking places are pub/microbrew combos. Even around Podunk Illinois where I live we’ve had several spring up. One has the best blue cheese bacon burger I’ve ever had and an IPA to die for. That’s my kind of economic recovery!
And Odungacare related jobs
Obama Akbar!
McJobs gaining—real jobs, not so much.
Obama has us drinking more. Makes sense.
A service job gained does not balance a manufacturing job lost.
Manufacturing creates a tangible product that creates wealth.
That is one of the reasons they generally pay well in terme of salary and benefits.
“Service” jobs do not.
And in general they pay less and offer fewer benefits.
Un-PC comment here:
Manly jobs lost. Girly jobs gained.
Not every guy wants to be a waiter.
Not every woman wants a full-time job (especially if they could get a part-time one and have time for their kids), much less one in manufacturing.
No answers for this, except, if you’re a guy, I guess you should get a manly hobby, and if you’re a woman, I don’t know what to say.
How much wealth do drinking places create?