Is the job market really improving or is it just today liberal rhetoric for re-election? (average, temporary)

[Freak80]

Anything that can go overseas will go overseas. Including "professional" jobs.

Start a landscaping business. Or a meth lab.

[s1alker]

It's good for skilled workers who live in or close to major metro areas.

[Fifty Seven]

There are jobs for skilled people that pay well and jobs for unskilled people that pay minimum wage, and very little in between. The days where a relatively unskilled or low skilled person could break in to the middle class through hard work alone are now gone. The low/moderate intelligence, good work ethic American can fight for scraps with the rest of the third world now.

[Serious Conversation]

It's all location and skill based. If you're in a depressed area, you're likely screwed. If you have some skills and are in/willing to be in a major metro, it's much better.

[ccm123]

Improving a lot, especially for knowledge workers.

[Hemlock140]

Originally Posted by Sockeye66

I'm in Seattle, it's crazy here. As HR Manager/Recruiter I've posted accounting jobs last year and had 60 resumes in a couple of days, this year, it was 10 for basically the same position.

Sorry man, look at the BLS, more jobs, more money being earned. If your skilled & struggling, it's time to relocate.

I'm having the same experience, 20-30 applicants rather than the usual 100 for positions paying $60-100k. The layoffs at places like Nordstrom are now offset by more hiring at places Amazon and Expedia, we have a much more diverse economy and that means more jobs.

[Old Guard]

Originally Posted by DorianRo

Intel cutting 12,000 jobs

Intel to cut 12,000 jobs globally - Apr. 19, 2016

Tons of manufacturers heading off shore or to Mexico. My own company centralizing 5 million offices (It seems anyways) and hundreds of people losing their jobs as a result. Companies lowballing on job offers and controlling the market and all the shots.

Im always hearing how we have been pulled out of the "funk" but then you hear of all these job cuts going on all over the place. Its hard to believe America is thriving in any sense of the word when you constantly hear these stories every day.


Everyone constantly cutting expenses and trying to go "Lean and Mean" doesn't seem to coincide with a healthy job market to me anyways

If you want to actually solve problems try to stop blaming the others (liberals, conservatives, nuns) and try to build consensus against real problems.

I have zero interest in people trying to find things to blame others for and be offended by.

[davebarnes]

All this and more at Calculated Risk

[prospectheightsresident]

The job market is "improving," if you count the total number of jobs added over the years. The problem with that picture, however (and I've written pretty extensively on this here on CityData in the past), is that a great number of those jobs that have come back are part time and at lower wages than the jobs that were lost in the last 10 years. Also, our unemployment rate, with a few exceptions over the last 5 year or so, has been dropping not because of jobs being added, but due to people dropping out of labor force; I've also written extensively about this on here. But let me also put it this way: if the economy was really in such good shape, Democrats would have fared much better in 2014.

Edit:

Here is one such post that I made on the matter in the past, with supporting evidence:

If Obama is doing such a great job, why did the Democrats just get voted out of power in the Senate if everything was so rosy?? First and foremost, the unemployment rate has largely decreased due to the fact that people dropped out of the work force/gave up looking for work. Here's a little taste of what's been happening: Unemployment Rate Drops for Wrong Reasons - Real Time Economics - WSJ. This is why our labor participation rate remains at a decade's low, which is not a good thing. Source: Labor Force Participation Rate September 2014 - Business Insider In total, one million more people have dropped out of the labor force than have found work under Obama (Source: Under Obama: One Million More Americans Have Dropped Out Of Work Force than Have Found a Job - Forbes). Moreover, to the extent that the "recovery" has created jobs, it has created far more low wage jobs than competitive/higher wage jobs (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/bu...ones.html?_r=0). Again, that's hardly something to be proud of and is the reason why Obama/Democrats remain so unpopular.

[SAAN]

The problem with the job market is the political BS that goes with stating how many jobs are available.

The government will say that 1 million people got a job last month and things are great, but not say the jobs were 30 hrs a week and minimum wage, paying $800 a month and with the cost of living in a semi decent area typically requiring $13-14hr working full time for a single person just to barely get by on $27-30K, who on earth can live on $800-1000 a month.