The passing scene is hilarious, until it careens through the front yard and crashes into my living room.
Friday, July 8, 2022
Friday, June 3, 2022
Full time as a percentage of civilian population vaults to 50.4% in May 2022, the 2019 average level
Full-time usually peaks in the summer months.
The average level for the year through May 2022 is 49.8%.
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Bloomberg economic model forecasts 25% tariffs between democratic and autocratic countries would roll back globalization to 1990s levels and leave the world 3.5% poorer
More.
The story never mentions how those newly introduced extra billion plus workers reduced economic outcomes for the already established middle classes around the world, especially in America where the full time job of the 1990s became a thing of the past.
If I'm repeating myself, I don't care.
Friday, May 6, 2022
49.8% of civilian population had full time jobs in April 2022: Potential room for at least 9.9 million more full time at year 2000 experience
On average in 2022 to date, there were 130.871 million employed full time at average civilian noninstitutional population level of 263.382 million, for 49.7% employed full time on average through April 2022.
Think of all the work we could be doing in this country, but are not.
Monday, February 7, 2022
It takes an economist to say that the labor market is on fire
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Housing affordability turned down again in 2020 as housing prices climbed ever higher and incomes fell
The rich have taken away the keys.
Friday, January 14, 2022
Democrats won control of all the important levers of federal government in 2020, but "democracy is on life support"
I'll say.
Friday, January 7, 2022
Friday, December 3, 2021
49.35% worked full time in Nov 2021, a new high for the year, vs. 50.52% two years ago at this time: Millions could be working who are not
That works out to 3.1 million missing full time jobs in Nov 2021 compared to Nov 2019 at current population.
We went from adding 1.7 million W-2s in 2019 to subtracting 1.7 million in 2020, a gap of 3.4 million.
Overall in 2021 to date full time has averaged 48.55% of civilian noninstitutional population, still much below the 50.4% average level in 2019.
Potential missing full time is at least 11.1 million at current population level.
The good times get smaller and smaller and smaller in the rear view mirror.
Friday, November 5, 2021
Friday, September 3, 2021
Full time jobs as a percentage of population now average 48.3% through August 2021
Full time as a percentage of population rose to 49.18 in August after peaking in July, as is typical, at 49.28.
The measure ebbs after summer and flows in the spring, mirrored by a peak oscillation in usually part-time employment in the winter, which is a much smaller part of the population, historically averaging 27+ million in the years before the latest catastrophe.
The 48.3% average to date in 2021 is one full point ahead of the average for 2020 at 47.3%, but remains far off the 2019 average at 50.4%, which itself hardly represented a return to what was normal before the Great Financial Crisis.
Full time work never recovered after GFC I, which exposed the hollowed out character of the US economy after decades of out-sourcing, off-shoring, and mass low-wage immigration.
Friday, July 2, 2021
America continues in decline, undershooting its potential by 13 million full-time jobs
Sunday, June 6, 2021
Biden can crow all he wants about "creating" jobs: The deficit in full-time compared with the 2019 average is still 5.1 million in May; just getting back to where we were before this debacle occurred will take years
May 2021 full-time jobs: 48.5% of population
Average 2019: 50.4%
Missing full-time compared to 2019: 5.1 million
Friday, May 7, 2021
Full-time employment as a percentage of civilian population climbed to 48.1% in April 2021
It's a long way from 2019, let alone from the Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush era.
If 50.4% had a full-time job in April 2021, 6 million more people would be working full-time than do.
Friday, March 5, 2021
Full-time employment in the US in February 2021 continues to SUCK
47.5% of the civilian US non-institutional population had full-time jobs in February 2021. The average level in 2020 was 47.3%.
Missing full-time in February relative to the 2019 average of 50.4% is 7.5 million.
Relative to the all-time high in 2000 at 53.6%, missing full-time is a whopping 15.87 million.
Friday, February 5, 2021
In January 2021 just 47.4% of the civilian population had full-time jobs, compared with 2020's average of 47.3%
Biden reportedly said in response to the employment situation summary today:
"At that rate it's going to take ten years to get back to full employment. That's not hyperbole that's a fact."
Sunday, January 17, 2021
Monday, January 11, 2021
2020 was a disaster for full-time employment, wiping out eight years of progress, however anemic those were: 13 million full-time potential missing on average relative to 2006 peak at 52.3%
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
The difference between 47.6% of population with full time jobs in Nov 2020 and 52% is 11.5 million
Think of each of those 11.5 million full-time units forming a household, buying a house, buying a car, buying a washing machine, raising some kids, paying taxes for good schools to which to send them, etc.
That's what's missing.
Sad!
Just a reminder that the harrowing nature of full time employment in the United States hasn't changed much as of Nov 2020
As a percentage of population, full time in Nov 2020 remains in the basement digging holes at 47.6%, reminiscent of the historic lows pre-Reagan and the double Reagan recessions of the early 1980s.
Full-time never recovered after the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, if you mean a return to pre-GFC1 levels. Under Obama and continuing under Trump full time after eight long years finally clawed its way up to 50.4% in 2019 on an average annual basis, only to be felled again by a lousing, stinking virus.
But don't make the mistake of blaming the virus. Conditions were long too weak to support pre-GFC1 levels of full time employment. Contrast this with the vigor of the Reagan/Bush surge in which full time went from 47.3% to 52.2% in just six years.
That missing vigor is the irreducible fact of the present economic malaise now in its twelfth year which very few acknowledge let alone understand.