Historically, the party controlling the WH lose the House in the off-year elections. Given Biden's recent struggles, there's no reason to expect it won't happen again in 2022. But the Dems' not-so-secret weapon could turn out to be Donald Trump.
The Republicans have no chance of taking the senate in 2022, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a 30-40 seat flip in the house.
Just wait for the rebound. You don't have to work will turn into "you are required to work".
The unemployment rate has been dropping at a historically high rate month to month this year. It’s currently at 2017 levels.
So what's with all of the businesses that have to shorten hours or close altogether? They can't find help like they did in 2017 for half the money....yet unemployment numbers are the same.The unemployment rate has been dropping at a historically high rate month to month this year. It’s currently at 2017 levels.
Working elsewhere doing what? What job industry is sucking up all of the employees?
Lots of companies have hired Burger flippers to work from home doing what exactly? We can't even keep grocery store shelves stocked at this point. Did the entire supply chain just take jobs working from home? Dock workers, truckers, etc all just figured out a way in the last year to make money sitting behind a computer?
Exactly, Cubs79. The size of the U.S. work force is shrinking as aging baby boomers hit retirement age amid a sluggish economy. This — not the so-called missing workers from the labor force — may be knocking down the unemployment rate faster than expected.
www.seattletimes.com
Because when companies that boomed during Covid like Amazon added hundreds of thousands of jobs people left the service and retail industries for those jobs. By and large the people who fled those industries weren’t waiting it out for those jobs to return. There isn’t a large pool of people waiting on these jobs to return. They also aren’t career type jobs people are going to school for.
Dammit, hemightbejeremy! You can Cubs79 are spoiling all the 'too lazy to work' crowd's thunder.
Amazon added 300,000 jobs nationwide from 2019 to 2020. That's like an average jobs report for 1 month.
See, there's your problem, making assumptions once again. I never once said that it was because of people being lazy and getting unemployment. I actually look at the LWPR and unemployment numbers, see what's happening in the real world, and it's clear that things don't add up. The numbers can not possibly be right.
Then what is it? If you dont think it's because people are lazy, but you dont believe the #s, then why are some jobs not being filled?
They added 500k in 2020 alone, and even more in 2021. We arent talking 2019 because that was prior to covid.
I have no idea. That's why I question whether the numbers were correct before, or if it was fake. Something about it doesn't make sense. Hard to attribute the whole thing to an aging population but I can see how that is a factor. Even with that though, does it stand to reason that a 61 year old would not go back into the workforce at twice the pay as they had as a 60 year old? Did we really have that many older people that aren't accounted for in the LWPR doing those jobs that are going unfilled now?
We are approaching a million excess deaths in the country due to Covid. That’s got to have an impact on the labor force.
A whiny new post?
Not really. If the average age of death from covid is 79, most of them weren't being counted in the LWPR anyway.
at this point it doesn't matter, nothing can change the fact that Dementia Joe is prez.
Now do the graph for labor participation rate.The unemployment rate has been dropping at a historically high rate month to month this year. It’s currently at 2017 levels.
As requested, here you go.
@sk8knight, how are your January 6th LEO friends holding up? You sending money to their GiveSendGo welfare accounts to help them pay for their legal defense?As requested, here you go.
Down about 1.5% since pre-Covid and ticking up recently. Down about 6% from the peak 20ish years ago. And no doubt the recent decrease is driven by Covid. Unemployment after all is still about 1.2% higher than the pre Covid rate even though it is dropping at a historically high rate. Labor participation decreasing is actually a positive as it means a) families can survive on a single income and b) people are able to retire or retire earlier. And if they aren’t drawing from unemployment, I’m not sure why you’d be very concerned that someone leaves the workforce.
Gotta love seeing treasonous pieces of shit get locked up.
Not a dodge, I do believe cheating went on, YES! it always does, did it flip any districts, which in turn effected the election, I have no idea, but at this point other than fixing things for next time, it doesn't matter one bit. The election was basically over when the states did their final certifications, and completely over after Jan 6. At that point even if huge cheating was proven the results are the results. Do I want Republicans to win both houses in 13 months, yes, Do I want Dementia Joe gone in 3 years? Yes, Do I want him gone now? No. Kamala likely is more inept than he is even without dementia.
Ordinarily workers voluntarily leaving their job would be a sign of a strong economy. In this case it think it has to do with the federal vaccine mandate taking effect.
No dodge? LOL Biden won the election -- is that really so hard to say?
I could see that. It still creates more questions about the numbers though.
