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.
I’m 28 and in the middle of nowhere (thanks Army) - but I recently got a job making $17.50/hr and I cried. Because I was so happy. (Then I realized I still have a technical degree and working on another, and how pathetic the economy is, and then I got mad.)
I’ll never forget 2008, I was a junior in college when Obama was elected the first time. I was watching the results come in and I was thinking, “well, I guess I didn’t need a job..” and then 2012, same thing. I am so darn hopeful for a Trump presidency, because I don’t want to see the teenagers of today grow up to be like me (wasting their 20’s trying to stay afloat in a crappy job market).
The only people I know that are really doing well (around my age) work for the federal government. And that is sad.