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US jobs report shows growth in part-time, low-wage work
World Socialist Web Site ^ | 04 July 2014 | Andre Damon

Posted on 07/05/2014 5:02:00 PM PDT by Lorianne

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Even WSWS is not buying what the Obama admin is selling.
1 posted on 07/05/2014 5:02:00 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

“Burger flippers”


2 posted on 07/05/2014 5:04:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Lorianne

Is Obama losing the socialists?

lol


3 posted on 07/05/2014 5:05:15 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Nothing a few million more criminal aliens could not fill.


4 posted on 07/05/2014 5:51:15 PM PDT by jimpick
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To: Lorianne
Obama's minions crow about the great news that all the jobs that were lost before have been restored to the economy! But of course, it's a lie. while the numbers might be there, those jobs tend to be part time, low paying jobs. Even Robert Reich said that the move toward part time work "might" have been in response to the regime's policies, in particular, the incredibly unaffordable "affordable care act."

Reich seems to scratch his head on that one, noting that Obamacare's mandates have been put off for the time being. Of course, as a Nobel Prize winning economist AND NY Slimes columnist, he wouldn't understand that businesses have to plan for the future.

Mark

5 posted on 07/05/2014 6:01:08 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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Nothing a few million more criminal aliens could not fill.

A big part of the problem with illegal aliens taking low paying, part time jobs, is that these are entry level jobs, the jobs American youth used to take as a part of learning responsibility and the work ethic.

In my neighborhood, the typical "first job" sort of work at fast food places are all held to people who speak little or no English. At the local Hardees, the people taking orders are at least minimally bi-lingual (their native language is NOT English) and speak to the crew in back in Spanish.

Mark

6 posted on 07/05/2014 6:05:47 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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Those wages will go even lower with the influx of central Americans competing for low wage jobs.

It does seem that Obama is on the same page as the Chamber of Commerce.

7 posted on 07/05/2014 6:06:07 PM PDT by grania
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How does job creation affect growth? In January of this year 144,000 new jobs were created; in February, 222,000; and in March, 203,000. Yet during that quarter, GDP dropped by 2.9%.

All those new jobs failed to add to our total output of goods and services. The experts explained this by blaming our unusually harsh winter weather for the economic contraction.

So, here we are enjoying excellent summer weather, and last month only 288,000 new jobs were created — not a great deal more than February’s 222,000 when the Polar Vortex was supposedly bringing America’s economy to its knees. And almost all of June’s new jobs were part-time, meaning the new job holders produced only half the goods and services of full-time workers.

Yet Obama and the media are proclaiming a fabulous new era of economic growth throughout the land. That is absurd. To counteract the 2.9% GDP decline of the first quarter, the economy would have had to grow by 2.9% in the second quarter just to get us back to even. But that couldn’t have happened with the relatively modest growth in new jobs we’ve had over the past three months, many of them part-time.


8 posted on 07/05/2014 6:20:11 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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they have eliminated 1.83 million medium-wage (paying between $13 and $20 per hour) and high-wage (between $20 and $32) jobs, according to the report.

Perhaps the jobs haven't been eliminated, but rather, they have had the wages depressed due to the surplus of labor.

9 posted on 07/05/2014 6:35:01 PM PDT by kabar
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“So, here we are enjoying excellent summer weather, and last month only 288,000 new jobs were created — not a great deal more than February’s 222,000 when the Polar Vortex was supposedly bringing America’s economy to its knees.”

Polar Vortex’s evil younger brother Hurricane Arthur just destroyed the recovery on the East Coast (in two days!).


10 posted on 07/05/2014 6:36:45 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Lorianne

It’s a sad day when you have to go to something called “the World Socialist Website” for an honest, candid look at the news.


11 posted on 07/05/2014 6:37:47 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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“A big part of the problem with illegal aliens taking low paying, part time jobs, is that these are entry level jobs, the jobs American youth used to take as a part of learning responsibility and the work ethic.”

Even worse, these were the jobs that unskilled American adults worked; they have been completely cut out of the American Dream with this amnesty nonsense. For the time being they are being bought off with welfare/food stamps/Section 8 housing, but that can’t last forever as their numbers swell.


12 posted on 07/05/2014 6:38:22 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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They used to be entry-level jobs, now they are getting to be the only jobs


13 posted on 07/05/2014 6:40:06 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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“They used to be entry-level jobs, now they are getting to be the only jobs”

This is certainly the case in the northeast, and has directly contributed to the 0 birth rate among whites here.


14 posted on 07/05/2014 6:43:14 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Lorianne

Things we haven’t heard from the Media and Politicians since Obama was Elected.

1. The Loyal Opposition.
2. Where are the Jobs Mr. President?
3. The Daily KIA Count in Afghanistan.
4. Dissent is Patriotic.
5. The President lied and people died.
6. Impeach the President
7. The Imperial President.
8. Arrrrrrgggggggh.
9. It’s Obama’s Fault.
10. Wolf Blitzer promoting the President’s weak Poll Numbers for hours and hours.


15 posted on 07/05/2014 6:58:34 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses...)
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Another Obama First !!!

Barack Obama has fundamentally transformed 1,000,000 full time jobs into part time jobs.


16 posted on 07/05/2014 7:32:28 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: Lorianne

And the Stock Market approved by sending the DJIA over 17,000


17 posted on 07/05/2014 8:08:57 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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Illegals are just doing jobs that big business want them to do....


18 posted on 07/05/2014 8:51:46 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Lorianne

Bump.....


19 posted on 07/05/2014 8:53:04 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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As a result, wages have remained stagnant. The average hourly wage for private sector workers increased by just six cents last month, and has increased only 2 percent over the past 12 months, less than the rate of inflation.

I can see the low wage jobs keeping the overall wage rates stagnant - I don't see regular jobs raising wages though - seems like wages ought to be in negative "growth" territory.

20 posted on 07/06/2014 3:02:47 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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