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Posted on 06/05/2015 6:33:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Blunting worries about the American economys momentum after a stretch of lackluster growth this year, the government reported on Friday that employers added a hefty 280,000 jobs in May, well above the average monthly totals logged over the last year.
The official unemployment rate ticked up to 5.5 percent, as more Americans returned to the labor force and returned to actively looking for work. At the same time, hourly wages rose 0.3 percent last month, finally providing workers with some long-awaited gains.
United States markets were expected to open lower on concerns that the strong report would provide further reason for the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates later this year from their near zero level.
Although the report provides just a snapshot of the economy and is subject to revision, analysts are looking at this freshest set of figures to help pierce the confusion over whether the economys contraction of 0.7 percent during the first quarter of 2015 was a blip, partly a casualty of the harsh winter, or evidence of a more fundamental slowdown.
This is a confirmation that the economy is performing well and the first quarter was an aberration, said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust.
He added that he was heartened by the growth in wages, which have now risen 2.3 percent over last year. Its good for workers and also a sign that capacity in the labor market is being utilized more fully.
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But there were 290,00 new applications for unemployment. A number curiously missing from the gummint spiel. But that’s why the unemployment number ticked up——not because somebody else tried to find a job.
The other number that’s up is gummint lying thru its teeth.
The number of people participating in food stamps has been steadily declining for two years. At its high point, in December 2012, 47,792K people were participating. As of March 2015, the latest month for which the Department of Agriculture has data, the number of people participating was 45,642K, a decline of 4.5%
Rising: 25,098,000 Foreign-Born Workers Employed in U.S.A.
(CNSNews.com) - The number of foreign-born individuals holding jobs in the United States increased by 279,000 to 25,098,000 in May, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).279,000 per month!
In January 2009, when President Obama took office, there were 21,375,000 foreign-born workers employed in the United States. Since then, the number has increased by 3,723,000.
In its data on foreign-born workers, the BLS does not distinguish between legal immigrants to the United States, who are permitted to work here, and illegal aliens, who are not.
The foreign born are persons who reside in the United States but who were born outside the country or one of its outlying areas to parents who were not U.S. citizens, says BLS.
The foreign born include legally-admitted immigrants, refugees [See , temporary residents such as students and temporary workers, and undocumented immigrants. The survey does not separately identify the numbers of persons in these categories.
The 25,098,000 foreign-born workers employed here in May was only 10,000 workers shy of the record high of 25,108,000 recorded in November 2014.
Just as foreign-born workers increased over the month, so too did native-born workers. There were 124,251,000 native-born workers employed in May, which was up 482,000 from the 123,769,000 employed in April.For native-born workers the unemployment rate increased to 5.4 percent in May from 5.1 percent in April. But for foreign-born workers the unemployment rate declined to 4.7 percent in May from 4.9 percent in April.
Plus "The foreign born include legally-admitted immigrants, refugees, temporary residents such as students and temporary workers, and undocumented immigrants [Illegal alien insurgent criminal invading colonists to be factual and non PC] The survey does not separately identify the numbers of persons in these categories."
Hat tip to Laura Ingraham:
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How about a graph of the labor force participation rate?
I’d go with Algebra, first.
And the truth shall set you free...
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia
You want to buy my bridge? It’s really nice.
Who do you think has a better economy then we do?
93 million divided by 300 million is 31%.
So in your world you count two year olds?
USA circa 2007 had a better economy than we do.
That 40% is largely, but not exclusively, made up of retirees. With the aging of the boomers that percentage will continue to grow.
Well that’s true. lol.
it’s more like 2 percent!! companies are hiring engineers and accountants who only have backgrounds in pizza delivery, they’re so desperate!!
I would hazard a guess it's because a lot of the new jobs being created are part-time ones, or at least limited hours, or full time but with very low pay. So people are theoretically employed, but unable to survive on what they earn.
Worse than that. Some people who were making $20 an hour are now making $21 an hour, most who were making $20 an hour are still making that, and a few will be earning less.
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