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Though there has been some recovery from the Great Recession, there were still fewer working-age natives holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than in 2000, while the number of immigrants with a job was 5.7 million above the 2000 level.
Yup and those 1.3 million TEMPORARY SEASONAL JOBS Mercea mentioned will all be back the end of this year once again (as they arrive EVERY YEAR) - only THEN they'll be ON TOP of the 3+ MILLION full-time jobs added last year AND - from the look of things - an even greater number of full-time jobs that will likely be added THIS YEAR.
Mircea likes to cherry pick by only looking at the specific months when seasonal jobs GO AWAY while conveniently ignoring those months when those seasonal jobs APPEARED. The pattern of such seasonal jobs appearing and then disappearing is a constantly repeating thing that happens every single year. Consequently, such patterns don't tell us much about how the economy is doing - which is WHY the BLS doesn't count them (either when they APPEAR or when they DISAPPEAR) in the widely quoted seasonally-adjusted monthly jobs report. There's just not a lot of point in touting them when they appear or bemoaning them when they vanish again. It's just something that happens every holiday season - just as SUMMER SEASONAL JOBS - which are mostly tourism-related - do the same thing in the early summer and fall. Anyone with more than half a brain should understand that - it's not all that complicated, and anyone who is honest should acknowledge it.
Little by little we've been crawling out of the economic cesspool left by the Bush years.
Ken
Can you be a little more specific about the economic cesspool. The economy was doing well until the housing market crashed. Blaming presidents for recessions is pretty ignorant in reality. The president's job is not really to baby sit the people, it is to keep the country safe and be a mentor. The people elect presidents, so why don't you just blame them? The Fed reserve is responsible for that type of recession, which was created by a progressive. Not saying that he was the best but are you so ignorant to think that there are not going to be serious repercussions and another depression by the way things are being handled now or just trying to be funny? Who are you going to blame when the crap really hits the fan again? You have a serious lack of footing in reality.
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The economy was doing well until the housing market crashed.
It wasn't. Sure, stock markets and loans were high but the economy really never recovered to a healthy level after the 2001 recession (which was a rather mild one to begin with).
Personally, I do not recall receiving 4-5 phone calls every day in the 2000s, until now. It used to happen in late 90s, and it is happening right now. Heck, I've asked my friends if they know someone who is looking for a job (for two positions that are well paid in analytics field). I got one contact but not useful one as she needed work permit (visa).
"The U.S. now ranks not first, not second, not third, but 12th among developed nations in terms of business startup activity. Countries such as Hungary, Denmark, Finland, New Zealand, Sweden, Israel and Italy all have higher startup rates than America does.
We are behind in starting new firms per capita, and this is our single most serious economic problem. Yet it seems like a secret. You never see it mentioned in the media, nor hear from a politician that, for the first time in 35 years, American business deaths now outnumber business births."
"I don't want to sound like a doomsayer, but when small and medium-sized businesses are dying faster than they're being born, so is free enterprise. And when free enterprise dies, America dies with it."
That's what regulations do. Hurt the small business owner.
Hope so..we've been "recovering" for nearly 6 years now.
Dubya's Great Recession has been a bad one. The worst in 3 generations. Took years to collapse the economy, it's taken a few less to get it pointed in the right direction.
Einstein'sGhost, I'm seeing a ton of activity amongst those I know too..regarding employment opportunities, and like you, I know few truly wanting new jobs. I am also talking about very well paying jobs.
I love the daily leftwing propagandist topics. It's so Stalin, libs. We don't believe your skewed reports of how wonderful America is doing under the boy king. [b]We know better[\b]. You don't believe them either but you're so invested in your boy you can't quit now. LOL!
No, you don't. You know Breitbart and Coulter. That's pretty much it.
According to you, just because you are in denial about this issue, then it can't possibly be true.
You and your ilk are always demanding links. When given them, if you don't like what you hear, you go on a rant.
I don't like what I hear when it's obviously nonsense - but hey that's just me. I actually like the articles I read to make sense.
Silly me.
Any idiot can post a blog and say whatever they want. That doesn't mean that what they say has any value.
Ken
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