Here’s what you need to know about today’s new jobs report, Save Jerseyans:
The U.S. economy added only 115,000 jobs in April. That’s down from 154,000+ in March 2012.
Both statistics objectively stink.
Depending on whom you ask, and as I’ve communicated to you before, the U.S. economy requires anywhere between 90,000 and 150,000 new jobs per month just to keep up with population growth (the most commonly-cited threshold for replacement-level job growth is 125,000)! So adding 115,000 new jobs in April accomplishes, at best, the requisite jobs required to offset birth rates and net immigration. 115k sounds like a nice big number, but the fact remains that millions of folks who have been perpetually unemployed throughout President Obama’s tenure aren’t really seeing an enlarged pool of opportunities.
Yes, unemployment dropped from 8.2% to 8.1% last month. But as you can clearly see, folks, it had nothing to do with real, substantive job creation…
The real reason? Our country’s discouraged worker pool (people who have given up on finding a new job) ballooned from 865,000 to 968,000 in April. That’s a 12% increase!
To make matters worse, 181,000 more people joined the group of individuals employed part-time for purely economic reasons (i.e. they currently want a full time position but cannot find one). They now number 7.8 million. Poor people eating up their 401(k)s and, having done so, creating more unwilling wards for the next, already financially-overburdened generation.
And it gets worse the deeper you dig, Save Jerseyans. We find that job “growth” is slowing while folks leaving the work force accelerated. Between March and April of this year, a huge amount of our fellow citizens – 522,000 people – stopped looking for work, taking the total number of Americans not participating in the workforce up to 88.4 million Americans (we were at about 88 million last month).
One final statistic to chew on? Since February 2010, the U.S. Economy added 576,000 food service sector positions.
To summarize:
(1) Not enough jobs being created to keep up with population growth let alone put the unemployed back to work.
(2) More Americans are dependents than producers than ever before in our history; among them are proud folks who have simply tried hard and given up after months (or years) of searching.
(3) America is, however, creating plenty of low-paying, unskilled food industry jobs.
A record like THAT would make Herbert Hoover blush, Save Jerseyans! The President might want to consider saving face, endorsing someone else, running for mayor of McDonaldland and leaving the business of governing this great nation to a more able successor.
We’re not lovin’ it, Save Jerseyans…
Obama added more jobs in 1 year than Bush did in 8. FACT
Unemployment 6% (or lower) under George W. Bush. It eclipsed 9% under President Obama. Not even close.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?s%5B1%5D%5B… …..we now have 88 million unemployed people not being counted in the unemployment numbers…FACT
forgot the chart . .http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/may/17/nancy-pelosi/nancy-pelosi-says-more-jobs-created-obamas-first-y/
When you run the economy into a ditch it takes awhile to get it out. Bush had a huge surplus when he came into office and turned it into record debt. When you don't pay for 2 wars and then add 2 tax cuts for the rich on top of that you run into the problem we are in now. Would you have liked to have been Obama or Bush when you became president? We were on the road to be debt free until Bush screwed our country royally.
so in other words that Clinton inherited a great economy and improved on it …..
So if the country is gaining jobs and that "objectively stinks," what can we say about the situation in New Jersey, where we lost 8,600 jobs in March?
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