The dirty secret of politicizing employment numbers is that you can get to zero unemployment. If the labor force participation rate is zero, so is unemployment. Everyone who wants a job (no one) has it. Ta-da! Record Low™
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On January 1st, 2023 Vermont Will Legislate Even More Jobs Out of Existence
Good news for New Hampshire. Vermont’s next mandatory minimum wage hike is set to go off on January 1st, 2023. That means fewer jobs and job creators across the river, a few of whom will consider jumping the border to set up shop in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Labor Force Exceeds Dec 2019 (Pre-Pandemic) Figures
If you were wondering whether New Hampshire was doing something right, this might help you find an answer. The State’s May Jobs data was just released, and unemployment is at a record low. But is it?
NH Job Growth Continues – Setting New Records!
Data Point: Record NH Job Growth Continues! Setting New Records! Unemployment rate – 2.6%Jobs Created – 1,410 in November; 10,710 from Nov ’18Workforce increased by 1,470; 12,380 since Nov ’18 The economy in New Hampshire continues to BOOM. PRESS RELEASE: NH Unemployment Security Administrative Office New Hampshire’s preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for November 2019 … Read more
The Obama Recovery Is So Darn Good…
The recovery is so damn good that more people stopped looking for work than found a job in January. Around 157,000 became employed while 169,000 people left the labor force. Since Obama came to office 8.5 million Americans have left the labor force. That means that there are 8.5 million fewer jobs in the country … Read more
Real Unemployment at 19%…
Wynton Hall at Breitbart.com wrote this. I’m just sharing it. Consider the following 11 economic facts: 1. When you include the underutilized labor figure with the eight million Americans who have lost hope altogether and stopped looking for a job, real unemployment now stands at just under 19 percent. 2. If the labor force were … Read more
There Is No Recovery
Time to put another nail in the Obama recovery coffin. The recovery that started when the recession “ended” in June of 2009. The recovery that is not growing jobs faster than the rate of population growth.
But that is hardly the worst of the Democrat’s problems. The bigger problem is that they are selling trillion dollar deficits year after year on the assumption it is creating jobs. They are printing money to pump into the economy on top of that to “jump start” this or that, which devalues the dollar, making everything cost more. (Inflation.) And the end result of all that debt, and deficit spending, and economic risk taking. and destruction is this…