Labor

Real Work Force – 05/31/15

bbollmann 06/12/2015 Economy, Labor, labor participation rate, Real Work Force, Unemployment

The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for May 2015 showing a slight uptick in the unemployment rate from 5.4% to 5.5% with 280,000 jobs created. At Forbes, a cautiously optimistic tone: Currently 8.7 million Americans are unemployed. At issue for months, however, has been the large percentage of people who are working part-time not by choice but because […]
Real Work Force – 11/30/14

bbollmann 12/08/2014 Economy, Labor, labor participation rate, Real Work Force, Unemployment

The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for November 2014 showing no change to the unemployment rate at 5.8% with a better than expected 320,000 jobs created. The Gray Lady’s cheerleaders continued their applause: Ever since the recovery from the Great Recession began more than five years ago, the most crucial missing pieces of the economic […]