There are plenty of jobs available according to the jobs report. Isnt that the true indicator on an economy? You can bring a horse to water but you can make him drink it…. Until you take away its entitlements.
Working for less than $72k if you have a spouse and at least one kid is less than all the benefits provided for not working.
Our government discourages production and encourages consumption. All social security and welfare spending supports consumption and discourages production by shrinking the workforce. Further production disincentives are taxes, regs, government agencies. All sorts of schemes that misallocate investment capital such as green and subsidies for chips
It’s little wonder we now have stagflation. Tariffs will help because there will be decreased demand due to higher prices. DOGE is no were close to enabling the productive capacity of our economy.
Most job listings are fake and if you can get hired it takes months.