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Monday, October 05, 2015

The Feudal "Recovery" Continues: 21,000 Waiters Added; 9,000 Manufacturing Workers Los

In our final look at today's lack of jobs report, we wanted to highlight two quick things.

First, of the 142K jobs added in September, 24K was government jobs, which incidentally was laid out by a scrambling for a silver lining Bank of America as the "positive" in today's jobs report. To wit: "Government hiring was strong for a fourth consecutive month, with payrolls up a solid 24,000 and averaging almost 29,000 in that time span." Because more government hiring is what the U.S. needs.

Sarcasm aside, this left just 118K for the private sector. Of this 118K, 78% went to low/minimum-wage paying jobs: Leisure and Hospitality was 30% of the total, adding 35K jobs, 25% was for education and health, more minimum wages, with Retail and Temp Help rounding out the remaining 23% in "gains." Meanwhile jobs which actually pay good wages, mining and logging, manufacturing and wholesale trade, all declined in September.

Unfortunately, there are still those - mostly economists and drama majors - who are still clueless about why the US economy is stuck in centrally-planned quicksand or merely doing their best to boost the government propaganda, here is the chart.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The implications of what is happening, is lost on at least half of the population. Another significant percentage isn't concerned, and could care less...since "getting money" doesn't require a "job", just utter lack of morality and respect for the rights of anyone but their own.