Payrolls Rise 164,000 as Labor Force Sets a Record High (unemployed, wage, health care)

[Reads2MUCH]

Originally Posted by Finn_Jarber

164K jobs is a good number to you?

It's a pathetic number.

In the meanwhile, the DOW is more or less where is was 20 months ago. No gains.

I think, as is the usual, you are allowing your hate to dictate your comments on these numbers. 164k is an excellent number, especially when we are talking about an economy that continues to roll along with unemployment numbers below 4%. I also find it amusing that you chose to discuss the DOW at 20 months ago. Perhaps you should have added 12 more months and discussed the change since Inauguration Day 2017. You know, the day when Donald Trump took office and the DOW closed at 19,827.25. But then, it would have been a lot harder to poo poo the numbers then huh?

[moneill]

Obama's average job growth 222,000K, Trump's 191,000K.

BUT you know what -- that's okay -- for Trump to take office when there were on average 222,000K months being added each month...it isn't too bad to be adding 191,000K jobs.

[James Bond 007]

Originally Posted by Reads2MUCH

I think, as is the usual, you are allowing your hate to dictate your comments on these numbers. 164k is an excellent number, especially when we are talking about an economy that continues to roll along with unemployment numbers below 4%. I also find it amusing that you chose to discuss the DOW at 20 months ago. Perhaps you should have added 12 more months and discussed the change since Inauguration Day 2017. You know, the day when Donald Trump took office and the DOW closed at 19,827.25. But then, it would have been a lot harder to poo poo the numbers then huh?

Here is the same person who predicted:

Originally Posted by Reads2MUCH

Current GDP growth under the new administration has been 3.1% in 2017. In comparison, 1.6% in 2016.
We should check back in around this time in 2018. I'm going to predict we'll be up around 4% by then, not floundering around the 2% zone as we were for all of Obama's years as president.

PS. In 2009, Obama's first year, we had a whopping -2.8% growth. No, that's not a typo. It was a negative number. Obama's best year saw 2.6% growth, but if you averaged them all out it hangs around 2%. And that's if you leave out the negative 2009 growth. And I did because I would never try to hold a new president responsible for everything he is inheriting. Everyone needs a little time to get things rolling like they want them too. The problem was, the following years just weren't that much better.

It's half a year past your prediction date, and guess what? We haven't gotten remotely close to 4% yearly GDP growth. Instead we've still bee floundering around that 2% GDP growth you complained was typical under Obama.

So I hope you understand if we don't take your observations that seriously.

[James Bond 007]

Here is annual GDP growth under Trump:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1Q225SBEA

2017: 2.8%
2018: 2.5%
With this year so far 3.1% and 2.1%, quarterly.

Under Obama we saw annual GDP everything from 0.3% to 2.9%.

Trump is no different than Obama.

[Boss]

One of the warning numbers is hours worked in a week down to 40.2.

No overtime means less money. If lucky enough to have gotten that 3%/ hr. raise yet you lose the extra hours 3% means squat.

[Dave_n_Tenn]

Originally Posted by moneill

Obama's average job growth 222,000K, Trump's 191,000K.

BUT you know what -- that's okay -- for Trump to take office when there were on average 222,000K months being added each month...it isn't too bad to be adding 191,000K jobs.

Get back on track took more than 10 years since 2006-07. We are almost there. The good news is wages for the least skilled. That alone is apolitical good news ... right?

Number of full-time employees in the United States from 1990 to 2018 (in millions)
https://www.statista.com/statistics/...sa-since-1990/

[skeddy]

basking in the glow of the glow of the Trump economy.

[Finn_Jarber]

Originally Posted by Reads2MUCH

I think, as is the usual, you are allowing your hate to dictate your comments on these numbers. 164k is an excellent number, especially when we are talking about an economy that continues to roll along with unemployment numbers below 4%.

Its a terrible number no matter how you spin it. Tens of millions of Americans dont have a job and you celebrate such poor numbers. When Clinton was president we were adding 300-400K jobs per month during 'full employment' and while US population was 80 million smaller than now.

[Dave_n_Tenn]

-- 94.6 million people above the age of 16 were out of the workforce.

Of those:

-- 44.5 million were retired.

-- 14.5 million were in school or job training.

-- 12.8 million were taking care of a loved one.

-- 15.3 million weren't working because of an illness or disability.

In all, of the 94.6 million not working, 87.1 million were retired, in school, taking care of a loved one or physically unable to work.

That leaves 7.5 million people.

[itshim]

Originally Posted by jbtornado

They'll blame the democratic house... Its laughable

Just like Dems will credit the economy to Obama, but blame Trump if it crashes?