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In reply to the discussion: The lowest jobless rate since 2008 [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)54. K&R For Good News.
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woohoo! 5 years out, jobs are back to what they were at the start of the recession!
HiPointDem
May 2013
#4
"if this pace continues for the entire year!" = but it won't, and hasn't. sequester. it will be
HiPointDem
May 2013
#7
my town is being destroyed by unemployment & you think i'm wishing for more? get out of your
HiPointDem
May 2013
#29
Mine too, but I guess that we're not supposed to believe our lying eyes.
AnotherMcIntosh
May 2013
#36
But according to the rah-rah squad, there's nothing to blame the Republican House for
nxylas
May 2013
#124
62 months & we're still not back to zero. slowest recovery in modern history. slower than
HiPointDem
May 2013
#13
i didn't say obama had been in office 62 months. i didn't say *anything* about obama.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#21
i didn't say it did. i said "from the start of the recession". your attempts at distraction are
HiPointDem
May 2013
#83
unemployment to population ratio 25-54 years -- lowest since women started entering the
HiPointDem
May 2013
#25
no, i think obama doesn't control anything. he is entirely powerless to mystical forces of
HiPointDem
May 2013
#14
obviously, presidents don't control anything and are completely irrelevant. you told me so yourself
HiPointDem
May 2013
#20
slower recovery jobs-wise than the great depression. & unemployment was higher under reagan.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#19
Thats fairly misleading considering the unemployment rate was stuck well above 10%, even above 15%.
phleshdef
May 2013
#63
The recession Reagan faced was overall way less significant, especially the housing market.
phleshdef
May 2013
#74
depends on how you define 'worst', the reagan recession reached higher unemployment.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#61
And he had a Democratic House and Senate fix it for him, that's why it was shorter.
Ikonoklast
May 2013
#62
funny, i didn't say word 1 about obama. maybe the problem is with the readers.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#82
When you were unemployed during the Reagan years, you did find work elsewhere.
duffyduff
May 2013
#93
Typical GOP\Basher meme; Downplay horrible horrid effects Republican Created recession was
uponit7771
May 2013
#17
5 years out and there are still fewer jobs total than before the recession started. that's a *fact*.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#27
you know what? i don't care. you clearly can't even read. "the guy i like" = ? i don't like any
HiPointDem
May 2013
#85
Perhaps you'd prefer to return to the 10+% rate at the height of the recession? Sheesh.
RBInMaine
May 2013
#81
1) Your numbers are wrong. 10% was the highest UE went, for one month, Oct. '09.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#125
It's MUCH WORSE than that. Labor force participation rate falls to lowest in a generation
kenny blankenship
May 2013
#120
3 million fewer jobs today than before the start of the recession. FEWER JOBS THAN BEFORE
HiPointDem
May 2013
#30
i didn't *say* the recovery began 5 years ago. but just for the record, it supposedly began
HiPointDem
May 2013
#51
3 million fewer jobs than before the recession, despite 5 years of population growth.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#84
i'd have no problem if the OP wasn't misleading. the rate they're touting is for ONE MONTH.
HiPointDem
May 2013
#45
There is a chart in the OP ... its pretty clear how long a period it refers to.
JoePhilly
May 2013
#53
yes, you're right on the op, i'm mixing the two articles posted by prosense. it's the other one
HiPointDem
May 2013
#58
You're right -- but we should be screaming at Congress. We need another stimulus. nt
pnwmom
May 2013
#70
Any one of us who voted Democrat should feel that we have made a small contribution...
JackN415
May 2013
#32
+10000.... AND pass the Trans-Pacific free trade assault, and expand H-1B quotas.
woo me with science
May 2013
#96
I think it's interesting that we aren't given reports of what actual income is
snappyturtle
May 2013
#106
And plans for cutting SS, and for the Trans-Pacific free trade assault are still in place.
woo me with science
May 2013
#95
How much of the change is due to long-term unemployed no longer being counted in the labor force?
limpyhobbler
May 2013
#101
oh, right. My daughter helped that figure - though she still has no job
bread_and_roses
May 2013
#107