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Mar 6, 2015
10:45
:28
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run26
Not all jobs are created equal
If you had a full time job and now you work part time, your situation is worse.
If you were making x and you're now making 60% of x, your situation is worse.
So the stats show up as 5.5% but it's not your father's 5.5%.
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Unemployment falls to 5.5%
AxelDC
3/6/15 8:30am
This is more a political report than an economic one
Jersey hunter
3/6/15 8:31am
You have a strange definition of economics
AxelDC
3/6/15 8:33am
Sweet....if it drops 5.4 more points TNT will be able to find a job!
idcougarfan
3/6/15 8:32am
Thanks America Works!
El Joffrey
3/6/15 8:32am
Fulltime adult labor participation rate? Still the lowest in 30 years?
LeftOfNormal
3/6/15 8:35am
Not surprising, Baby Boomers are getting old
zuxvon
3/6/15 8:41am
I don't think it includes them
HighHorse
3/6/15 8:43am
Nope. 18-65. Worst its been in decades.
LeftOfNormal
3/6/15 8:44am
Interesting! I know several people that have retired before 65
zuxvon
3/6/15 8:50am
More people were forced back to work full time after the crash in 2007
HighHorse
3/6/15 8:54am
Just think where we would be if Mitt had won.
Hambone
3/6/15 8:36am
So Bush gave us the jobless recover, Obama, the under paid recovery
bald man
3/6/15 8:36am
Does the labor participation rate matter?
PhilPete
3/6/15 8:36am
If the 5.5% rate stated there is so correct and awesome, why is the
PhilPete
3/6/15 8:38am
One reason, in 2008, states were allowed to relax standards for who qualified.
Finngirl
3/6/15 8:43am
Interesting, all of the "relaxing" under BO. Imagine that.
PhilPete
3/6/15 9:44am
Actually, the "relaxing" standards occurred pre-Obama, in 2008.
Finngirl
3/6/15 11:26am
And most of the TARP measures were negotiated pre Obama as well.
Finngirl
3/6/15 11:27am
Median income appears to be inching up too. Thanks Obama!
boogers
3/6/15 8:39am
Does it matter that our coountry is now full of folks who are forced to
PhilPete
3/6/15 8:39am
And if you believe that number, I've got a really nice bridge for sale...
TheDeek
3/6/15 8:50am
its a made up number. Clinton changed how the Dept of labor calculated it
Chazz Reinhold
3/6/15 9:05am
1.5 million more people now on SS disability since Obama was elected
CoogsWin
3/6/15 10:11pm
Spoiler Alert!
maxpowers
3/6/15 9:12am
And the myth that presidents control the economy continues:
Monomachos
3/6/15 9:16am
There's three kinds of lies...
BoilerCoug
3/6/15 11:23am
meant for OP
BoilerCoug
3/6/15 11:24am
Not all jobs are created equal
run26
3/6/15 10:45am
Obama's a liar and so are his officials. I hold them in utter contempt.
DeepCCoug
3/7/15 4:57pm
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