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There Are More Jobs Than People Out of Work, Something the American Economy Has Never Experienced Before (cnbc.com)
The jobs market has reached what should be some kind of inflection point: there are now more openings than there are workers. From a report: April marked the second month in a row this historic event has occurred, and the gap is growing. According to the monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released this week, there were just shy of 6.7 million open positions in April, the most recent month for which data are available. That represented an increase of 65,000 from March and is a record. The number of vacancies is pulling well ahead of the number the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts as unemployed. This year is the first time the level of the unemployed exceeded the jobs available since the BLS started tracking JOLTS numbers in 2000. As of April, the total workers looking and eligible for jobs fell to 6.35 million, a decrease from 6.58 million the previous month. The number fell further in May to 6.06 million, though there is no comparable JOLTS data for that month. Under normal circumstances, the mismatch would be creating a demand for higher wages. However, average hourly earnings rose just 2.7 percent annualized in May, up one-tenth of a point from April. Further reading: Why Nebraska has an amazing jobs market but nobody is moving there.
Yeah, no. Obama was a disaster for this country. I can give you 10 trillion reasons. In 25 years once all the infatuation with him has worn off he will be regarded as one of the worse presidents in history.
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The people paying the high taxes posses off the people that have to pay them. That's why they are leaving. The water restrictions you just linked further proves my point because California can't even afford to build new dams to support the migrant influx! Why do you think the likes of Chevrolet & Toyota moved to Texas! Why California's top burger franchise Carl Jr's is now based out of Tennessee! The middle class exodus from California since 2008 has been estimated in the hundreds of thousands, and businesses (including small businesses) in the tens of thousands.
High taxes are not reasonable, taking money from people who earned it and giving it to people that didn't is not reasonable. Telling people you can't use water to do things that require water is not reasonable.
When you try to get more tax money out of people that can afford to move, they will move which means you get no tax money from them, this is why socialist regimes always go broke. That is happening in real time in California.
Maybe it's time to support the California secession movement, let it break off and turn into Venezuela, but geographically most of the state is red and would rather break off from San Francisco and LA than leave the Union.
Make SELinux enforcing again!
Of course you realize that the coffee comparison is nothing more than a metaphor for the real problem, right?
Yes, the current crop of millennial's is the most entitled generation in a long time. They are not the only people affected by the economic down turn so that doesn't wash. Lots of people of all ages are working for little pay and no benefits. But millenials seem to be the least prepared for real life. The riots after the Trump election are the a good example. They lost a election so instead of preparing for the next one, they complained and moaned. For god sake there are millennials that can't even balance a check book or keep a budget.
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Let's see how these trade wars,
What trade wars? All there has been has been a talk brought up in the liberal media but nothing has happened.
Here is what will happen. There will be all of sabre rattling, bitching and moaning. A lot of panic in the press. But in the end both sides will sit down and come up with a trade agreement that nobody is happy with. That is how this works.
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At least Trump has not weaponized the IRS to go after his political opponents... I guess that doesn't count for corruption though, does it?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!