Unemployment is down to lowest rate in 5 years!!!

[DowningRules]

We're at 7.2% people.  The unemployment rate is falling like a rock.  Great news.

 

Discuss.

[Schildog]

underemployement, people leaving the work force and etc. 

[TobiasFunke]

Thanks a lot Bohner

[yk9001]

Those numbers mean nothing.  Finagled to exclude the people given up on finding a job.

 

And the large amount of those jobs in crappy retail...  Its not like the San Fernando Valley has jobs in aerospace, car manufacturing, etc.  These are Starbucks barista jobs, or sandwich artists.

[Stradling]

Yep, these are a bunch of people getting a second part time job because no one is offering full time employment right now.

[Angel Oracle]

Yep, these are a bunch of people getting a second part time job because no one is offering full time employment right now.

Thank you Obamacare

 

I'm not real big on CEOs, but Obamacare is such a clusterf%%% that anyone would be risking it committing a full time financial commitment with its' uncertainty.

Hey Nancy, have you read the bill yet????

[DowningRules]

There should be a new government program where poeple are hired to read the bill.  Job creation.

 

Thank you Obamacare

 

I'm not real big on CEOs, but Obamacare is such a clusterf%%% that anyone would be risking it committing a full time financial commitment with its' uncertainty.

Hey Nancy, have you read the bill yet????

[floplag]

lies, damn lies, and statistics.. if you truly beleive this, or think that we are somehow better off, you are dreaming and drinking the koolaid.
Those who have found jobs are part timers with no benefits, and many have either lost their bebefits or simply given up.
basing anything on the amount of claism being made at this time when i still see major layoffs and other such things that do not speak to people having replaced those incomes is a joke, seriously, a joke

[Angel Oracle]

One stat I saw had 97% of new hires being for part-time work.

Nice economy!

[TennAngelsFan]

When we are surrounded by people that are just suffering it makes life miserable for all of us.  The scary thing is that things are rapidly getting worse.  As fewer and fewer people are in the work force they are surviving anyway they can.  Food stamps, disability, multiple  part time jobs etc.  If it's a choice of feeding their family is an even bigger crime wave on the way?

[Bruce Nye]

I saw the real number is at 14%

[arch stanton]

May I ask what makes it the real number?

[Adam]

Facts

[Blarg]

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the state of California is right about where our education is ranked nationwide at 47th worst. Currently 8.9% unemployed and unable to get a 20 hour a week barirsta job at Starbucks.

 

http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/laumstrk.htm

[Bruce Nye]

May I ask what makes it the real number?

 

 

The number the politicians use is those filing for unemployment.  It doesn't take into consideration the vast number of people who ran out of unemployment checks and have given up looking for a job.

[Angel Oracle]

This country gets left with garbage for candidates.   Only in this country can we have a community organizer as POTUS, and someone running for VP in 2008 who didn't even know who the AXIS countries were in WWII.

[Jason]

Those numbers mean nothing.  Finagled to exclude the people given up on finding a job.

 

And the large amount of those jobs in crappy retail...  Its not like the San Fernando Valley has jobs in aerospace, car manufacturing, etc.  These are Starbucks barista jobs, or sandwich artists.

This was my 1st thought when I read the thread title.