It’s mainly illegals that have taken a huge percentage of the jobs.
No one complained about this when Bronco Bama was President.
This guy really understates this.
As of the end of 2017 there were 62 million Americans on Social Security. I'd say the entire issue of low labor force participation can be attributed to massive growth of retirees over the years. See below:
The so-called labor-force participation rate is 62.8%, a level it has generally been stuck at since 2014.
The 62.8% represents the number of people employed and looking for work as a percentage of the "adult population" in the U.S., which is defined as anyone 16 or older who is not institutionalized. This percentage is so low because retirees are included in the "adult population" even if they have no interest in working.
ha ha ha ha
fakenews yahoo tries to downplay the Trump economy.
These same pukes sang the praises of every disastrous move by Obama.
And when someone would point out the participation rate, it was ignored by fakenews yahoo.
cram it, yahoo. no one listens to your fake analysis.
Interesting.
Back when we were wondering about the Labor Force Participation rate, no one seemed to care.
Now, it’s important?
The enemedia combined with the 0' regime are just so predictable.
VALERIE JARRETT: WE SHOULD GIVE OBAMA CREDIT FOR TODAYS JOBS REPORT
Uhmmmm..... So, let’s see if Larry has anything positive to say about the President:
https://www.yahoo.com/author/rick-newman
Nope
This yob is a lefty who has a BA and spent his career writing for useless outlets
Why should I pay any attention to him?
Real unemployment is at 10-12% when you factor in the people whose bebfits have run out and have not found work (or have taken employment for lesser pay to try and survive). It is still a very tough job market out there, especially for blue collar folks (non college educated whites in Democrat talk). Plus wages are not in line with the cost of living. The country is stil not doing well. Undoing the damage of the HW Bush, Clinton, W Bush, 0bama administrations willntake a long time.
The U-6 is what i watch for the right trend. The dems messed up the headline number so they would not look bad; especially going into the election.
Yes, and under Obama it was surprisingly high, to hear Lefties tell it.
Stop paying people to not work with money extorted from working taxpayers.
Fake news.
If my ex wife can find a job, anyone can!
It all broke loose back in October for her.
:-)
ROTFLOL!
for 8 year under obamam the leftist fake stream media pretended like the U6 unemployment stats didn’t exist, but now that Trump is President, they’ve suddenly discovered theM: “Oh look, things arn’t REALLY as rosy as Trump claims ...”
Of course, the thing is that the leftist fake steam media can spin numbers all day long, but it’s the reality of daily life that people are going to pay attention to, not the lies and spin from the Nuevo Pravadas from the right-hand coast ...
I've been saying that for a while. A lot of boomers who work physical jobs can't do them anymore.
Obama worked as hard as he could for eight years to pad the disabled list with guaranteed Democrat voters. It will be a challenge to get that undone.
People in their late fifties who lose their jobs cannot get a new one. So they stop looking. Why is this difficult to understand.
Next in the wings - "the homeless" to make its first encore performance since Reagan.