Posted on 05/03/2014 5:25:48 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
(CNSNews.com) - The number of women 16 and older not in the labor force climbed to a record high of 55,116,000 in April, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
This means that there were 55,116,000 women 16 and older who were in the civilian nonsinstitutional population who not only did not have a job, they did not actively seek one in the last four weeks. That is up 428,000 from the 54,688,000 women who were not in the labor force in March.
In April, according to BLS, the labor force participation rate for women was 56.9 percent, down from 57.2 percent in March. The labor force participation rate, as calculated by the BLS, is based on the civilian non-institutional population, which is the number of people in the country 16 or older who are not in the military or an institution.
The labor force participation rate is the percentage of this population that either has a job or actively sought one in the last four weeks.
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Bring back jobs to America.
Stop sending US jobs to China.
China now produces more than America produces, that continues to grow rapidly, and America imports a whole heck of a lot of that.
America needs to make things here.
America makes plenty of things here. Unfortunately, those jobs are never coming back. Even if you shut down every factory in China and moved all of them back here, they’d be so heavily automated that: (1) there would hardly be any impact on the U.S. economy at all, and (2) the jobs gained in manufacturing would be largely offset by job losses in logistics, longshoremen, etc.
I (strongly) disagree.
America needs jobs.
Jobs. We need to bring back US jobs from China and the world.
Now.
tell us again who was hosting the War on Women? /rhetorical
You can disagree all you want. It ain’t happening, no matter how many times you rant about it. The days of having 4,000 men walk down the hill every morning to a Bethlehem Steel mill in Pennsylvania or a Ford plant in Michigan are never coming back.
We fundamentally disagree.
America needs, American jobs.
This is why we need comprehensive immigration reform. /jeb
You are right. Those jobs are not coming back but there are manufacturing jobs here. I live in Upstate SC and we have a lot of manufacturing jobs. Probably not as many as the heyday but really good jobs. Of course, SC is right to work and we have a Republican governor.
U.S. Industrial Manufacturers Optimistic Regarding Domestic and World Economic Outlook for 2014, According to PwC’s Manufacturing Barometer
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/23/ny-pwc-manufacturers-idUSnPnNYlsZkj+164+PRN20140123
I get your point about automation, but even if we went from 4,000 jobs in the past to about 500 today for the same factory, that would still be 500 workers paying taxes into our system and for our military instead of China’s.
America has leaned far too heavily on China.
Last year America sold China 122 billion dollars of goods and services.
Last year China sold America 440 billion dollars of goods and services.
America needs to make stuff, right here.
China now produces more than America produces.
Bring back America production. Now.
The Constitution spells out the federal governments limited powers; providing jobs is NOT one of them. It’s not the governments duty to provide jobs, and candidates who argue job creation programs will never get my vote. However, if government were trimmed to its Constitutional limits we would have more jobs, because the oppressive cost of compliance with government regulations would drop and businesses developed here could be competitive again. Businesses are not motivated by some conspiracy to destroy America, they are motivated by profit; due to compliance costs and uncertainty introduced by things like ObamaCare it does not currently make much sense to make things here.
Our government is completely sold out to foreign manufacturing.
Completely.
Bring back American manufacturing. Now.
America needs more women to stay home, give birth, and raise kids.
We are approaching demographic suicide. Just like Russia.
Good.
Back home, barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen.
Not working and paying taxes.
Time to starve the beast.
It's not foreign competition that has eliminated these American jobs. It's the never-ending search for improvements in efficiency that drives the push for automation.
No sorry to argue with you but it is Chinese competition.
China makes far too much of what America buys.
China is making too much. America needs to return manufacturing to America.
We buy stuff made here instead of in China, that addresses the 3,500.
It's not foreign competition that has eliminated these American jobs. It's the never-ending search for improvements in efficiency that drives the push for automation.
Actually, it's both. The latter is OK, because technology has eliminated some jobs but created others.
Foreign competition? The choice is creating tax payers in the US paying for our infrastructure and our military, or creating tax payers in China paying for China's infrastructure and military.
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