U.S. Economy Added 280,000 Jobs in May 2015; Unemployment Rate 5.5%

New York Times ^ | 06/05/2015 | By PATRICIA COHEN

[cherokee1]

But there were 290,00 new applications for unemployment. A number curiously missing from the gummint spiel. But that’s why the unemployment number ticked up——not because somebody else tried to find a job.

[cherokee1]

The other number that’s up is gummint lying thru its teeth.

[ConstantSkeptic]

Meanwhile, the pool of able-bodied adults continues to grow, and the total now on food stamps reaches higher and higher levels monthly. Does NOBODY ever come off the government EBT cards?

The number of people participating in food stamps has been steadily declining for two years. At its high point, in December 2012, 47,792K people were participating. As of March 2015, the latest month for which the Department of Agriculture has data, the number of people participating was 45,642K, a decline of 4.5%

[RetiredArmy]

Not counting NINETY-THREE MILLION Americans who could be working, but are not, because THERE ARE NO STINKING JOBS for them to be working!!!! 93 MILLION. Can you simply imagine how much better this nation's financial situation would be if 2/3ds of these people were working, paying their taxes, owning homes, buying stuff from stores, AND NOT draining the pockets of the tax payers with free federal government pay outs!!! Yeah, right, Obama is such a success. Rather he is an absolute disaster for this nation. He HAS fundamentally changed the republic. He has broke the bank. He put in his homo crap. Ruined the schools. Allowed radical ISIS types to invade the nation. Allowed millions of illegals and muzzies from the middle east to invade. Nope. Get used to it folks, America is done. Toast. Finished. Ka-put. The nation that was once the envy of the free world. The nation that once was the LENDER nation, is now the in financial ruin. We owe nations that in the past would have been borrowing from us. Now we borrow money from nearly every nation that will lend to us. Foreigners own this country. Buildings. Companies. You name it, foreigners own it. Few Americans own anything here now. We are owned by foreigners.

[Syncro]

Interesting:

Rising: 25,098,000 Foreign-Born Workers Employed in U.S.A.

(CNSNews.com) - The number of foreign-born individuals holding jobs in the United States increased by 279,000 to 25,098,000 in May, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

In January 2009, when President Obama took office, there were 21,375,000 foreign-born workers employed in the United States. Since then, the number has increased by 3,723,000.

In its data on foreign-born workers, the BLS does not distinguish between legal immigrants to the United States, who are permitted to work here, and illegal aliens, who are not.

“The foreign born are persons who reside in the United States but who were born outside the country or one of its outlying areas to parents who were not U.S. citizens,” says BLS.

The foreign born include legally-admitted immigrants, refugees [See , temporary residents such as students and temporary workers, and undocumented immigrants. The survey does not separately identify the numbers of persons in these categories.”

The 25,098,000 foreign-born workers employed here in May was only 10,000 workers shy of the record high of 25,108,000 recorded in November 2014.

Just as foreign-born workers increased over the month, so too did native-born workers. There were 124,251,000 native-born workers employed in May, which was up 482,000 from the 123,769,000 employed in April.

For native-born workers the unemployment rate increased to 5.4 percent in May from  5.1 percent in April. But for  foreign-born workers the unemployment rate declined to 4.7 percent in May from 4.9 percent in April.

279,000 per month!

Plus "The foreign born include legally-admitted immigrants, refugees, temporary residents such as students and temporary workers, and undocumented immigrants [Illegal alien insurgent criminal invading colonists to be factual and non PC] The survey does not separately identify the numbers of persons in these categories."

Hat tip to Laura Ingraham:

Laura Ingraham ‏@IngrahamAngle 2h2 hours ago

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But where can we get more?

Senate "Jihad Caucus" to bring 65,000 Syrian refugees to US

Click on link to see U Tube.

[EEGator]

How about a graph of the labor force participation rate?

[1rudeboy]

I’d go with Algebra, first.

[SeekAndFind]

How about a graph of the labor force participation rate?

[EEGator]

And the truth shall set you free...

[Red in Blue PA]

We’ve always been at war with Eastasia

[Augie]

You want to buy my bridge? It’s really nice.

[napscoordinator]

Who do you think has a better economy then we do?

[napscoordinator]

93 million divided by 300 million is 31%.

So in your world you count two year olds?

[ClearCase_guy]

USA circa 2007 had a better economy than we do.

[semimojo]

On another thread, the government admitted that people not actively looking for work is about 40% not included in the “official unemployment rate.”

That 40% is largely, but not exclusively, made up of retirees. With the aging of the boomers that percentage will continue to grow.

[napscoordinator]

Well that’s true. lol.

[ForYourChildren]

[dp0622]

it’s more like 2 percent!! companies are hiring engineers and accountants who only have backgrounds in pizza delivery, they’re so desperate!!

[Vanders9]

So if the unemployment rate is dropping so nicely... How come we have record numbers of people on food stamps?

I would hazard a guess it's because a lot of the new jobs being created are part-time ones, or at least limited hours, or full time but with very low pay. So people are theoretically employed, but unable to survive on what they earn.

[Vanders9]

Worse than that. Some people who were making $20 an hour are now making $21 an hour, most who were making $20 an hour are still making that, and a few will be earning less.