Posted on 04/23/2018 10:50:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
It only counts those who are looking for work. There are many mothers taking care of children, high-school students, college students, etc who are not looking for work right now.
It certainly cannot be a true rate. I am old enough to remember when the true unemployment rate in my area was five percent or below, there were jobs everywhere,I could get a job any day that would pay enough to actually be worth working and with no college degree. New college graduates were starting out at what would be equal to a hundred grand a year or more now if a true inflation adjustment were used.
Yet Oregon’s homelessness is still high.
Bottom line, economically things are better. You can see it, and just as important, you can feel it.
I just hate government statistics. I never trust them, but things are better, no doubt.
For years, I have said that we need to get someone in the White House who isn’t a professional politician, someone who has worked in industry and understands how to meet a payroll and the vagaries of the ins and outs of the business world.
Trump fits that bill, and it shows. He is running the economy like a professional, which is what he is.
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