As if a job is a valid measure. What kind of job? Are we trading mid level or executive jobs for minimum wage jobs? Why don’t they publish the actual payroll numbers, they know that from the FICA tax receipts. Because the payroll numbers cannot be fudged, that’s why.
That is funny. Real numbers can't be fudged. Government statistics are nothing more than Stalinist propaganda reports on the latest "Five Year Plan". The things they tell us are somewhere between wishful thinking and outright lies. Either way, they are fictional.
The Wall Street Journal says employment is up but wages are lagging; the “new normal”.
As long as our “safety net” has been a “career” for successive generations of gibsmedats, and now has to deal with the masses of newly-unemployed Americans that will never reach their previous wage levels in their lifetime, expect the minimum-wage debated to rage on. Anyone who had any job with dignity will be hard to motivate to work the $7.50/hour McJobs that are the only ones available (if the companies even offer them to anyone over 20).