Monday, November 7, 2016

US Job Market is Unhealthy

Hillary keeps bragging that job growth is up. But the reality is the November jobs numbers came out  and there was no substantive change in the U.S. labor market, meaning the situation is still dire for tens of millions of American workers.

 It also means that The New York Times continued to gush about “healthy job growth.” According to the Times, 161,000 new jobs created in October, and the unemployment rate dipping down to 4.9 percent, “suggest[s] a healthy outlook for the months ahead.”

Actually, the NYTimes assessment is farther from the truth.We know it's a slanted liberal rag.
There are multiple causes for this trend, but the only way it can be effectively addressed is to reduce the level of immigration into the United States so the labor market better reflects the realities of Twenty-First Century America.

Dark humorists have pointed out that when everyone drops out of the labor force, politicians will take credit for reducing the unemployment rate to 0%. I wonder if that’s how The New York Times will report it.

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