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Say Hello to Full Employment: Want to know where the economy is headed? Look at Des Moines.
The Atlantic ^
| July 6, 2018
| Annie Lowrey
Posted on 08/18/2018 8:16:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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I was a department head at the Des Moines workforce center (aka the unemployment office) for 20 years and I know most of the people quoted.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lot of good farmland disappearing...
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:17:29 PM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: PeterPrinciple
Big farms are almost ***this*** close to full automation, for all intents and purposes. In the 19th Century 90% of the country farmed, now it’s 1.5%.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:22:29 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So, you have some deeper insight in the article.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:24:10 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Weekend dump when it won't catch anyones' attention.
I did a search of the article.
The name Trump doesn't appear in the article.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A 4 percent unemployment rate is considered “full employment.” We’re below 4 percent and we have 0.95 candidates for every job opening. We’re beyond full employment.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:30:18 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yogi Berra might say that if you had full employment, you wouldn’t. Why? The folks at the unemployment office would be unemployed.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:31:26 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: Army Air Corps
These were problems in the 80s and 90s. An employee could go to lunch and have another job that afternoon. Half my time there was helping veterans and the other half welfare-to-work, since I took a promotion from another state department to do that. If my welfare moms (they were 97% female) had a head on their shoulders I could find them a very decent middle-class job where they could leave TANF and SNAP behind. We also would pay their tuition up to a bachelors degree (masters in special cases) so they had a leg up over the average worker in that way at least. Most of my veterans, of course, were pretty much self-motivated and didn’t like sitting idle. Some of these were mid and upper level executives and I often boosted their pay over their last position by $50,000 - $100,000 or more.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:31:28 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: TBP
Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:32:42 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
These were problems in the 80s and 90s. An employee could go to lunch and have another job that afternoon. Half my time there was helping veterans and the other half welfare-to-work, since I took a promotion from another state department to do that. If my welfare moms (they were 97% female) had a head on their shoulders I could find them a very decent middle-class job where they could leave TANF and SNAP behind. We also would pay their tuition up to a bachelors degree (masters in special cases) so they had a leg up over the average worker in that way at least. Most of my veterans, of course, were pretty much self-motivated and didnt like sitting idle. Some of these were mid and upper level executives and I often boosted their pay over their last position by $50,000 - $100,000 or more.Can you get me a job as a gigolo to college-age girls?
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:33:10 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(NEWS MISLEADIA: The New York Times is so openly dishonest, even their crossword puzzles lie.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
But I haven’t seen wages go up very much. A lot of places can’t find workers — you can’t entice workers to join your company if you don’t offer more money.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:33:21 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
To: Lazamataz
You want to be my co-worker? I'll have to ask the Madam.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:36:53 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Must feel good to see that area booming like this! Very nice recreational areas around there too. Anyone who thinks Iowa is flat hasn’t been there.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:37:27 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
To: ClearCase_guy
The article is pretty clear that wages are going up.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:37:28 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:37:57 PM PDT
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: Lazamataz
Can you get me a job as a gigolo to college-age girls?
Figures, lazy until the end. You want to be gigolo, go out and market yourself, create a brand and do it. No one is preventing you from doing it.
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:41:18 PM PDT
by
zaxtres
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“We got ‘em right where they want us.”
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:48:33 PM PDT
by
Seaplaner
(Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:49:15 PM PDT
by
gogeo
(No justice, no peace.)
To: Lazamataz
Are you sure you’re not going to be in a rocking chair next to a spittoon muttering incessantly about Sessions?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I received an unsolicited email the other day asking if I was interested in a position in information management. I haven’t worked since leaving the UOG in 2015. They found my resume on Link-In or some other professional networking site I no longer use.
I have no desire or need to work again. But, it might be interesting to have an interview except the job was in California and I refuse to live there. I replied with a polite but firm “No thank you.”
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posted on
08/18/2018 8:58:52 PM PDT
by
Fai Mao
(There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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