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How Good Is Job Growth? The Chart Obama Doesn’t Want You To See
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 4/1/2016 | John Merline

Posted on 04/02/2016 5:57:14 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

“The longest streak of private-sector job growth on record”!

“U.S. businesses have now added 14.4 million jobs over 73 straight months”!

“The labor force participation rate rose to 63% in March, the same level as in November 2013”!

All those quotes — minus the exclamation points — came from White House top economist Jason Furman. And they are all accurate.

What’s missing, however, is context.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; jobs; laborparticipation; wages

1 posted on 04/02/2016 5:57:14 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
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To: IBD editorial writer
It appears to me that the only quasi-economic book Obozo has read that even comes close to understanding economics is Darrell Huff's How to Lie with Statistics. Worst President...ever, including Carter.
2 posted on 04/02/2016 6:02:46 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

IBD, the champion of offshoring, complaining about job growth in the USA, Now that is priceless.


3 posted on 04/02/2016 6:05:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

Do you really have to excerpt your own stuff??


4 posted on 04/02/2016 6:08:52 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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The graph is devastating for Obama, compared to the Reagan recovery. The Reagan recovery is almost a constant rise, while the Obama recovery (?), is almost a constant DECLINE! What kind of a “recovery” gets progressively WORSE?

What have we done to our country in the name of political correctness and white guilt? How long will it take us to recover from eight years of this ineligible, Muslim, Manchurian candidate?

Birthers are validated! Obama is the poster child for Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the constitution, which is there to prevent posers like Obama, from becoming president. His foreign ties/loyalties, his foreign upbringing, his foreign parent and relatives, his foreign education, his political indoctrination, (not to mention foreign birth), all DISQUALIFY him from the presidency.

Why? Because he has no American values. He is more of a foreigner than an American, regardless of where he was born.

This should be a wake up call to everyone that the constitution MUST be enforced. We must not let the Obama presidency establish the precedent that the constitution, Article II, Section 1, Clause 5, is no longer the LAW of the LAND!

While Ted Cruz is not the threat that Obama was, (I love Canada), he is not eligible to the office of president on TWO accounts. We MUST reestablish the validity of the eligibility clause to a zero tolerance for exceptions to it, starting with the Canadian/Cuban, Ted Cruz.


5 posted on 04/02/2016 6:36:17 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Laslo Fripp
From Mr Merline's Twitter account, he states that he's a "senior editor" of the website, so one would think he would have the authority to post his whole article...
6 posted on 04/02/2016 6:50:23 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: IBD editorial writer
Acccording to the BLS A9 table, we gained 127,000 multiple job holders.

Does a person who holds down two part time jobs saying "Fries with that?" count as full time?

7 posted on 04/02/2016 6:53:41 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (See my home page for some of my answers to the left's talking points.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

bttt


8 posted on 04/02/2016 7:04:49 AM PDT by Luigi Vasellini (End the political class.......TERM LIMITS NOW!!!!!!!!!!)
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This is the chart that Americans should be concerned with. They declassified working Americans in order manipulate the unemployment rate which has now become meaningless. 2008 the started the reduction of working Americans? Really?
9 posted on 04/02/2016 8:04:48 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: faucetman

Ted Cruz is very much qualifies as a NBC and the Penn State Supreme Court has confirmed such.


10 posted on 04/02/2016 8:45:05 AM PDT by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
Does a person who holds down two part time jobs saying "Fries with that?" count as full time?

Yes. Twice.

11 posted on 04/02/2016 8:56:58 AM PDT by zeugma (Vote Cruz!)
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To: Carthego delenda est

Might as well hijack the thread since the OP hasn’t weighed in since
posting it:)

Thanks for the Twitter information. I started three Twitter accounts back when Rush was trying to amass Twitter followers. He didn’t understand
it then and I still don’t.

Who has time for both Twitter and Free Republic??


12 posted on 04/02/2016 10:05:02 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: Laslo Fripp

“...since the OP hasn’t weighed in since
posting it:)”

His history shows that he NEVER weighs in.


13 posted on 04/02/2016 11:17:34 AM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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