Multiple job holders hit what only looks like a new high in Feb 2025 at 9 million not seasonally adjusted

 But as a percent of civilian population, the 3.3% current level still doesn't come close to the 1996 peak at 4.2%.

More Americans with college degrees are working multiple jobs, Fed report finds

 

 

Meanwhile in the real world full time employment as a percentage of population fell for a seventh consecutive month in Feb 2025 to 48.88% from 50.26% in July 2024

 That's the worst February reading since 47.51% in Feb 2021.

 

 

 

The Dumb Ass Unemployment Rate in February 2025 falls to 37.65% as 102.7 million are eating but not working under Donald Trump instead of 102.9 million in January

 

Since Donald Trump wants to move the goalposts for counting the costs of his tax cuts and for calculating GDP, let's use his dumb ass unemployment rate from 2015 from now on, shall we?

 Donald Trump had one of the worst annual dumb ass unemployment rates in history in 2020: 38.25%.

Every president between Carter and Obama did better than he did.

Get off your ass you losers and get to work.

 

 

Imbeciles Trump and Musk claim millions over the age of 100 get Social Security when it is 89,106 people in December 2024 lol

Trump loves Whoppers.

Smell the farts of nothing has changed.

In 2015 Trump used Rush Limbaugh Math and came up with 42% unemployed lol. "Not in labor force" is not a measure of unemployment.

These Social Security claims are loonier than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris saying 200 million and more had already died of COVID in the United States during their campaign for president-vice president in 2020. Joe corrected himself eventually. Trump and Musk WILL NOT.

... The [Social Security] issue has been repeatedly identified by inspectors general at the agency, but the Social Security Administration has argued that updating old records was costly and unnecessary.

Per the agency’s online records, just 89,106 people — not tens of millions — over the age of 99 received retirement benefits in December 2024, out of the more than 70 million people who receive benefits each year.

It’s a “humiliating mistake for anyone else to make, but they’re doubling and tripling down on it,” said Kathleen Romig, director of Social Security and disability policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank that addresses government spending. ...

More.

Meanwhile the US population 65 years old and older was only about 59 million in 2023. Hello.

 

January 2025 is the fifth consecutive January with full time employment not as good as in January 2020 when 49.85% of civilian population usually worked full time

January 2020: 49.85%

January 2021: 47.42%

January 2022: 49.29%

January 2023: 49.32%

January 2024: 49.16%

January 2025: 49.22%

 

Peak Baby Boomers worked when they were teenagers, at 2.07% of population, still the peak, today at just 0.78% of population

Get a haircut and get a real job
Clean your act up and don't be a slob
Get it together like your big brother Bob
Why don't you, get a haircut and get a real job?

-- George Thorogood, 1993

 

It's not a perfect one to one comparison, let alone an actual measurement, but about 20% of teenagers worked in 1979, and not quite 12% today:

Full time employment as a percentage of population fell to 49.33% in December 2024 and 49.65% for full year 2024

 It's been a five month slide in 2024 from the peak of 50.26% in July.

Peak annual for this cycle was in 2023 at 50.21%.

The Trump I annual peak was in 2019 at 50.38%.

Previous to that, full time as a percentage of population peaked in 2006 under Bush 43 at 52.3%, and the mother of all peaks was under Bill Clinton in the year 2000 at 53.55%.

Somebody needs to fix this. 

I don't think it will be Trump II.

Sad!

 

49.33% December 2024

49.65% Full Year 2024