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Actually there is a lot you can do with a history major. I know several people in top companies with that degree. They know how to write and research more than most. My son will also graduate with that degree but has no interest in teaching. He is going to graduate school for International Relations. They said having a history degree was a plus.
Actually, she got married while in college, and afterwards starting having children. By the time she needed to enter the workforce her degree was years behind her, and hence had become pretty worthless (I guess potential employers look at a resume and say "So, history major. Graduated, what, 20 years ago? Nothing since? Excuse me while I eat this sandwich and stare at you").
Considering there haven't been many months over the last decade adding 240K plus jobs, I will take any glimmer of hope.
Yeah, we havent had many months of this type of growth over the last decade, only the following periods have we had higher growth
2001 we had March, April, May, June
2002 we had March, April, May June
2003 we had March, April, May, June, October
2004 we had March, April, May, June, October, November,
2005 we had Feb, March, April, May, June, October, November
2006 we had Feb, March, April, May, June, November
etc
Note the pattern..
EVERY YEAR we have this type of job growth during April
LOL, I like your time frame. Try looking at job creation coming out of recessions. Also we have never spent as much to create so few jobs.
Even more important, EVERY YEAR we have job growth in April over the last decade (except 2009).. These people are acting like this is something out of the norm...
LOL, I like your time frame. Try looking at job creation coming out of recessions. Also we have never spent as much to create so few jobs.
It doesn’t take much to like anything, it does to be able to analyze and discuss it. So, your next excuse is coming out of recession. Let us see, job growth in private sector over two years following 2001 recession:
Nov 2001: 109.58 million
Oct 2003: 108.57 million
Forget about gains, over a million jobs were lost. Perhaps that is your idea of a fine economic growth? Compared to that debacle, how have we done since the end of current recession?
Jun 2009: 107.94 million
Feb 2011: 108.36 million
That, sire, is a growth in the positive territory.
2005 had private job growth of
Jan 404K
March 746K
April 1.195M
May 806K
June 1.116M
July 6K
Aug 213K
Sept -402K
Oct 251K
Nov 406K
Dec -94K
Net INCREASE..
Why dont you stop lying when the data is so easily proven correct ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/suppl/empsit.compaeu.txt (broken link)
Would you mind disputing the numbers I provided? Would you mind providing a link that proves that there was a positive growth over first four years of this decade? BTW, jobs did grow in 2005 (but that would be fifth year since the beginning), with 2.21 million jobs added over 12 months. That averages out to about 184K jobs per month over a period you thought was great, while you're trying to dismiss a job growth of 244K in April 2011. Good lord.
You guys are missing the point. They are not hiring the unemployed folks back. For some reason, they are not very attractive for the employers. So they continue to sit on unemployment and that keeps swelling the numbers. In the meantime, there are more layoffs.
Jobs added doesn't mean a thing if the unemployment is not coming down and is in fact, awfully increasing
The unemployment number are down because a lot of folks are not looking for work, and the feds took them off the employment roles. Once people do see a future they will start looking for work the unemployment numbers will go up; the real unemployment is 16%.
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