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We’ve been reporting this for years. Minorities are significantly better off under President Trump than they ever were under Obama, or Bush, or Clinton, or Bush. Yes. The accused racist has done more to improve the lives of people of color than the President of color.
We teased this yesterday with data from the ADP National Employment Report. August was an excellent month for workers. Today the Dept of Labor has confirmed that.
Despite the Left’s non-stop carpet-bombing with weapons of mass-media destruction, President Trump continues to gain popularity. Nothing sticks, not even Leftist prayers that the Trump Prosperity is ready to crash and burn.
NBA Basketball player Draymond Green earns 16.7 million dollars a year. The guys who pay him that much are Joseph S. Lacob, and Peter Guber. His employers also own the team for which he plays, but Draymond doesn’t think they should be called “owners” because of slavery.
In the free market need, experience, employee availability, number of “qualified” potential applicants, and the job itself (among other factors) define what an hour of labor in any given occupation is worth. Employees and employers are free to negotiate that. But the Democrat lead NH House knows better.
Time for a progress review We are living with Democrat majorities here in New Hampshire’s House, Senate and Executive Council as well as in the House of Representatives in the District of Columbia. Let’s take this opportunity to examine what the people have got to show for the most recent election. Here in New Hampshire … Read more
New Hampshire has had excellent employment numbers all summer long and now they are even better. According to the Department of Employment Security, the Granite State is still plumbing record territory. Seasonally adjusted estimates for November 2018 placed the number of employed residents at 743,860, an increase of 1,170 from the previous month and an … Read more
If Democrats were hoping for a pre-election push from today’s job numbers they got it, but in the wrong direction. Hiring accelerated in October and the unemployment rate held at a 49-year low, signs of a strengthening labor market that delivered U.S. workers the best pay raises in nearly a decade. U.S. nonfarm payrolls increased … Read more
Remember the ‘Summer of Recovery?’ It became an annual “festival” celebrated by the media, and the left each and every season after the elevation of his majestic almighty greatness Obama I. Every summer henceforth shall be named recovery summer. We should have coined a catchy mysterious tagline like “Summer is coming.” But recovery summer never came.
Then we elected Donald Trump, and it finally arrived and in record fashion.
The numbers: American workers are finally reaping the benefits of the lowest unemployment rate and best jobs market in decades: Wages and benefits are rising at the fastest pace in a decade. The employment cost index rose 0.6% in the second quarter, a tick below the MarketWatch estimate of 0.7%. More important, the cost of worker compensation … Read more
Texas Oil Peak Cyclical Employment Production Rig Date Workers (BBL/Day) Count October 2008 211,100 1.125 Mil 925 December 2014 295,100 3.532 Mil 872 March 2018 215,900 4.052 Mil 492 (H/T: Forbes)
As reported June 1st, the nation reached a milestone. Black unemployment has hit a record low. Racial disparity in unemployment is also at a historical low. That’s kind of crazy if we really are all a bunch of racists. But even if we were, which we are not, you’d expect that so-called party of People of Color would be screaming it from their solar panel covered rooftops.
Not one member of New Hampshire’s All Gurl Democrat Delegation has written a single word about it since it was announced eight days ago.
Last week some Democrat stooge was on the radio badmouthing Governor Sununu on the economy and workers and families and wages (insert dancing donkey in a top hat), but she did it without actually saying anything. It was all empty rhetoric. Palm card pablum.
Yes, I have plenty of issues with Chris Sununu’s “priorities.” I have problems with State Republican Leadership’s priorities. But for all the goofy things they focused on this past Session they managed to not get in the way of the State’s economy.
An economy that has entered record-setting territory.
Last Month, in April of 2018, the unemployment rate for black Americans hit a record low. You probably didn’t know that for the same reason you didn’t know this.
Black unemployment fell precipitously to 5.9 percent after a record-setting low of 6.6 percent the previous month, while unemployment for white workers dropped from 3.6 to 3.5 percent.
Overall unemployment, according to the Department of labor, dropped to 3.8%, the lowest it’s been since Y2K.
CNBC is reporting that jobless claims have hit a 48-year low (which for the math challenged includes the years when Obama was President).
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits were unchanged at a seasonally adjusted 211,000 for the week ended May 5, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Claims dropped to 209,000 during the week ended April 21, which was the lowest level since December 1969.
There are more jobs than skilled labor, by many estimates. Hey, maybe some of those able-bodied folks on Medicaid Expansion will look for work before January 2019 when the NH Waiver makes it mandatory?
This is interesting. For the second time in a few years, a federal court has ruled that illegal immigrants can sue American employers that refuse to hire them because they require workers to be U.S. citizens or legal residents (green card holders). The latest blow to the rule of law was delivered by an Obama-appointed … Read more
Every good New Hampshire Democrat knows that the best way to have an immediate impact on jobs and the economy is to increase the cost of doing business. Making it cost more to run a business acts like a tax on the business owner, and Democrats love taxing business.
Enter HB127, An act relative to the state hourly minimum rate.
Rep Tim Horrigan and admitted socialist Peter Sullivan (New Hampshire Democrats), are unsatisfied with the machinations of the Federal government in the value of labor relative to the task at hand and are certain that they know better, not just than their Federal master in D.C., but better than every employer and employee in the entire Granite State, what any hour of labor is (at minimum) worth.
Societal decay has many symptoms. One of which that mottles our society like a cancerous blotch on the drooping bosom of freedom is the unending, unforgiving, and unyielding sense of entitlement –entitled to things coming not just from government, but directly from fellow citizens as well.
The expression supposedly uttered from Marie Antoinette to the people suffering from a bread shortage, “let them eat cake” has been transposed and inverted to the 21st century version of “let them never eat golden sponge cake again,” coming from not a Queen, but from a whaling union worker as a union strike eats the last Twinkie and a bakery shuts its doors, laying off 18,000 workers (if you want the details, Google it for yourself).
Americans for Prosperity – they’re on our side and Democrats hate them which makes them that much more awesome–has released its most recent Ad, this one in response to the ridiculous jobs report that shows unemployment down when the economy isn’t even producing enough jobs to account for population growth.
Here’s the Video – “The Dinner Table.” The AFP Press release is on the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_1ZT1hwpng&feature=player_detailpage
A college student asked President Jobless about finding a job in the United States. After his mawkishly glib attempt at easing the tension with a joke punctuated by nervous laughter, he replied and said the economy’s been tough the last for years and followed that with, “the most important thing you can do… is to … Read more