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Media says we´re in a jobs boom -- we´re not
IBD ^ | 12/8/16 | Staff

Posted on 12/08/2016 7:03:48 PM PST by 198ml

We keep reading in the media that the job market is on fire, that we´re near full employment. But it´s a sad truth that the monthly jobs report doesn´t really reflect what´s going on in our hobbled economy.

As everyone knows by now, the jobs data for November show a decline from 4.9% to a 4.6% unemployment rate, as businesses created 178,000 new payroll jobs. What could be better? While we applaud these improvements, they mask deeper problems with the U.S. job market.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aei; jobs; media; unemployment
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1 posted on 12/08/2016 7:03:48 PM PST by 198ml
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To: 198ml

#FAKENEWS (errm... not this article, but the jobs boom).


2 posted on 12/08/2016 7:06:06 PM PST by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: 198ml

There are lies, there are damned lies and statistics.

All of which are used by Obama and his acolytes.


3 posted on 12/08/2016 7:06:19 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: 198ml

It was PISSED when the unemployment went down to 4.6. You know they did that to screw Trump. It’s going to be a long 4 years with all the sabotage that went on prior to Trump winning. The fed purposefully keeping interest rates down until.....oops December needs to have a rate hike. hmmmmm. Funny how that happens. Gas is starting to go up.......pisses me off the whole thing.


4 posted on 12/08/2016 7:06:48 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: 198ml

Ya 20 hours a week max and 8.25 starting-at least around here.

And they are bragging about it.


5 posted on 12/08/2016 7:07:19 PM PST by crz
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To: 198ml

We’re in a part-time and temp jobs boom.


6 posted on 12/08/2016 7:07:26 PM PST by Lorianne
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Probably most of the jobs created are Holiday Season temp jobs....


7 posted on 12/08/2016 7:07:39 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Lorianne

Got me by 13 seconds...LOL


8 posted on 12/08/2016 7:08:42 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: ichabod1

bttt


9 posted on 12/08/2016 7:09:36 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 198ml

A jobs boom equates to upward wage pressure. That isn’t happening. There is no boom.


10 posted on 12/08/2016 7:10:30 PM PST by meyer (There is no political solution to this troubling evolution...)
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To: napscoordinator

178,000 jobs per month isn’t keeping pace with the increasing labor market. I think we need about 245,00 minimum per month just to keep even.

It’s all spin.


11 posted on 12/08/2016 7:14:23 PM PST by ChiMark (America no more)
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To: 198ml

A RECORD 95 million Americans are no longer considered in the job market.

That number went way up, last month. Almost a half a percentage point. In one month.

Just as “unemployment” went way down.


12 posted on 12/08/2016 7:16:32 PM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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Oh yeah. I’m already getting sick knowing what the newspapers and other crap media are going to say about Trump. “Trump only brings in 1 million jobs this quarter. Yep they will go that route for sure. While Obama was given free tickets from the media on everything. Trump won’t be given those free tickets at all.


13 posted on 12/08/2016 7:17:27 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: 198ml

Take a few hundred pounds of govt shackles off of the small biz man and you’ll see a jobs boom.


14 posted on 12/08/2016 7:18:08 PM PST by lurk (TEat)
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For the next 4 years, it’ll be the opposite of “Blame Bush,” they are already laying the ground for Obama to get all the credit for everything good.


15 posted on 12/08/2016 7:22:04 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: 198ml

FAKE NEWS! GET YER FAKE NEWS HERE! READ ALL ABOUT IT! OBAMA HEALS THE PLANET! ECONOMY ROARING JOBS FOR EVERYONE! HOT OF THE PRESSES! GET YER FAKE NEWS HERE!


16 posted on 12/08/2016 7:27:19 PM PST by Awgie (Truth is always stranger than fiction.)
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To: crz

Exactly. Thanks to obamacare, employers don’t hire full-time. They hire two or three part time employees - no benefits. I know young kids (20 somethings) working 2 and 3 jobs. I’m sure they get counted in the government statistics as 2 or 3 people employed. It’s not. Real unemployment and underemployment is rampant.


17 posted on 12/08/2016 7:28:10 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: 198ml

Lying to make it look good for obama in his last few months of office so that history doesn’t accurately portray him as the worst president ever as he was.


18 posted on 12/08/2016 7:28:20 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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19 posted on 12/08/2016 7:30:21 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: metmom

correct


20 posted on 12/08/2016 7:30:27 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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