Showing posts with label Jobs 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jobs 2018. Show all posts
Monday, December 31, 2018

H. Ross Perot's $13/hr factory jobs going to Mexico in 1992 should pay $27/hr today adjusted for inflation but pay only $18

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The giant sucking sound clip from 1992 is here . Perot characterized factory wages in 1992 as typically paying between $12 and $14 pe...

OK, let's be honest: Racism is so yesterday when unpatriotic Republicans and Democrats get rich and get votes off cheap foreign labor

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Republicans specialize in spending money on putting Americans out of work, by importing cheap foreign labor and giving tax breaks to job-exporting corporations

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Friday, December 7, 2018

Don't piss down my back Brainard and tell me this is full employment, beyond full employment, or pearly shells

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I love Pearly Shells . Fed's Brainard: US economy at or beyond full employment Twelve years ago 63.4% of the population had a j...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

"Ten years ago I made over $22 an hour"

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"Now I make $11." "Thanks a lot."
Friday, November 16, 2018

We don't need any more immigrants: Population increases have outpaced labor force increases for a decade

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Before the Great Recession the growth rate of the labor force easily exceeded the growth rate of population for decade after decade, but si...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Piers Morgan: Trump is kicking Democrats' ass

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Piers Morgan, here : According to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, Trump is now at 47% approval, compared to Obama’s 45% two weeks bef...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

The so-called tight labor market is a euphemism for age discrimination by employers

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Employers can't find enough young, cheap labor because of declining birth rates, reducing the available pool (blue line year over year ...

Alan Greenspan's tight labor market is fake news: Unemployment is really 8.4%

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In September 2018, the civilian labor force was just 62.7% of the civilian noninstitutional population (161.958 million X 100 / 258.290 m...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

If we had 66% of the population in the labor force like we still did in 2008, it would be 8.5 million larger in 2018 than it is

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Sunday, October 14, 2018

It's a myth that we need more immigrants when the share of population increases joining the labor force is down 59%

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Thursday, October 11, 2018

W-2 payroll data for 2017 just out shows huge slowdown to monthly additions from 2016

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Monthly additions dropped from 227,000 (revised up 4,000) in 2016 to 160,000 in 2017 (figures rounded to the nearest thousand). There ...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Since the Great Recession, Hispanics took over 4 jobs for every job going to whites, Blacks took 2, and Asians nearly 2

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Monday, October 8, 2018

The jobs recovery from the Great Recession has by-passed white people even two years after Trump election

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Sunday, October 7, 2018

Hispanics and Blacks got all the jobs since 2007, whites got bupkis

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Hispanic jobs are up 6.5 million, or 31%. Black jobs are up 3.1 million, or 19%. White jobs are up 1.2 million, or 1%. That means...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Trump has created more jobs in his first 22 months than any Republican in the post-war and comes in 4th overall

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If this were an economic boom earnings for most people would be increasing 3-4% instead of 2-3%

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Friday, October 5, 2018

Hey Rush: A new record 96,364,000 eating but not working you dummkopf!

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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Employers have loved all the extra, cheap female labor since the 1960s: Median weekly real earnings for all are up just 0.12% per year since 1979 . . .

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. . . but were still flat as recently as 2014 (35 years)
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Portland company Webtrends claimed Kavanaugh accuser Swetnick made false sex allegations against employees

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Julie Swetnick, a Brett Kavanaugh accuser, faced misconduct allegations at Portland company : In the suit, Webtrends alleged Swetnick...