Post #416,421
1/3/17 9:52:02 AM
1/3/17 9:52:02 AM
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And if you wanted people to get the message that you support the working class ...
... which she says is the position she holds, how would you get that message out? Maybe by supporting policies that more clearly benefit the working class.
Jobs have been created under the Obama administration. The unemployment rate has gone down. A huge portion of the population doesn't know/believe that. That's clearly a communication problem. I won't say it's a "messaging" problem, because it's the media that deiced delivering that message wasn't fun or profitable.
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Post #416,422
1/3/17 10:44:33 AM
1/3/17 10:44:33 AM
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Jobs aren't the issue. Slaves had jobs.
80% of those jobs you speak of are minimum wage (read: sub-living wage) jobs, which in turn contributes to more corporate welfare. bcnu,
Mikem
Social Media is for Sociopaths.
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Post #416,424
1/3/17 11:33:35 AM
1/3/17 11:33:35 AM
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23.7658% of statistics are made up on the spot...
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Post #416,425
1/3/17 12:00:58 PM
1/3/17 12:00:58 PM
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From a report in 2014... Tracking the Low-Wage Recovery: Industry Employment & Wages
This report updates NELP’s previous industry-based analyses of job loss and job growth trends during and after the Great Recession. The report shows that low-wage job creation was not simply a characteristic of the early recovery, but rather a pattern that has persisted for more than four years now.
We find that during the labor market downturn (measured from January 2008 to February 2010), employment losses occurred throughout the economy, but were concentrated in mid-wage and higher-wage industries. By contrast, during the recovery (measured from February 2010 to February 2014), employment gains have been concentrated in lower-wage industries. http://www.nelp.org/publication/tracking-the-low-wage-recovery-industry-employment-wages/More recently, ... As we noted earlier, February [2016] suffered the biggest ever monthly drop in average weekly earnings, because not only did hourly earnings drop but so did hours worked, resulting in far lower overall weekly wages.
What caused this? Nothing our readers don't already know: recall that in January, "70% Of Jobs Added In January Were Minimum Wage Waiters And Retail Workers."
February was even worse: most of the jobs that were created, if only on a goalseeked, seasonally adjusted basis, were of the lowest paying, worst possible quality as has been the case for the past 7 years as the BLS desperately seeks to "pad" its political mandate of providing proof in a recovery which however is impossible if it were to tell the truth.
As a result, as the BLS itself admitted, "job growth occurred in health care and social assistance, retail trade, food services and drinking places, and private educational services" - all of which are the lowest-paying wage groups. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-04/over-80-jobs-added-january-were-minimum-wage-earnersBut, the Democratic Party's strong ties to the Union Movement will help corre ... er, never mind. bcnu,
Mikem
Social Media is for Sociopaths.
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Post #416,426
1/3/17 12:19:10 PM
1/3/17 12:19:10 PM
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Thanks for the links, but...
 Median, full-time, real, earnings don't go up like that if "80%" of the new jobs are "minimum wage". (The recent low was Q2 2014.) HTH. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #416,430
1/3/17 1:46:43 PM
1/3/17 1:46:43 PM
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Heh. You found a chart.
But then, there's this. WASHINGTON — Americans last year reaped the largest economic gains in nearly a generation as poverty fell, health insurance coverage spread and incomes rose sharply for households on every rung of the economic ladder, ending years of stagnation.
The median household’s income in 2015 was $56,500, up 5.2 percent from the previous year — the largest single-year increase since record-keeping began in 1967, the Census Bureau said on Tuesday. The share of Americans living in poverty also posted the sharpest decline in decades.
The gains were an important milestone for the economic expansion that began in 2009. For the first time in recent years, the benefits of renewed prosperity are spreading broadly. ...
The economic recovery, however, remains incomplete. The median household income was still 1.6 percent lower than in 2007, adjusting for inflation. It also remained 2.4 percent lower than the peak reached during the boom of the late 1990s. The number of people living in poverty also remained elevated, although it shrank last year by about 3.5 million, or roughly 8 percent. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/14/business/economy/us-census-household-income-poverty-wealth-2015.htmlAlso, this ...  Let me guess. There's nothing wrong with this and IT IS GETTING BETTER RECENTLY!!!ONE If we'd only stick with these policies, in another couple of decades, the working class might be as well off as they were in 1998, amirite? And there's this ...  bcnu,
Mikem
Social Media is for Sociopaths.
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Post #416,442
1/3/17 7:07:10 PM
1/3/17 7:07:10 PM
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Yeah, things weren't too bad economically during Clinton's term. Good point! ;-)
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Post #416,450
1/4/17 8:10:40 AM
1/4/17 8:10:40 AM
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Yeah, except for the mortgage that came due in the 0's. ;0)
bcnu,
Mikem
Social Media is for Sociopaths.
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Post #418,003
5/3/17 12:52:25 PM
5/3/17 12:52:25 PM
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Also, they were immigrants too.
At least I split up my "also too". Where TF did that peculiar fad come from?
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