Posted on 08/04/2018 3:09:33 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
President Donald Trump’s “hire American” economy has secured record low unemployment for the country’s most vulnerable workers: high school dropouts.
In the month of July, high school dropouts 25-years-old and over enjoyed the lowest unemployment rate ever since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking the data in 1992.
The unemployment rate in July for high school dropouts stood at 5.1 percent, the lowest on record, further depicting an economy where Americans are increasingly reintegrated into the workforce rather than businesses importing low-skilled foreign workers to take blue collar U.S. jobs.
Trump’s economic model has been to depart from the Washington, D.C.-imposed cheap labor economy where businesses readily import low-skilled foreign workers to take bottom line jobs in the American economy.
Instead, the Trump model has been to tighten the labor market — partially through increased immigration enforcement — asking businesses to hire Americans who have been marginalized from the workforce. This economic model has secured higher wages for blue collar American workers as there is less downward pressure on their hourly salaries from mass unskilled, illegal immigration.
As Breitbart News most recently reported, Trump’s high wage, hire American economy has opened new job opportunities for Americans with disabilities.
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Winning. Every job becomes routine at one point. It gives hope to the dropouts. The next trick is to get them to save and be frugal. They didn’t become dropouts by working hard.
When I was just out of college, I worked an extra 2 hours each day and 8 on Saturday for time and a half.
I made enough extra to buy a new VW bug and to fund my coming grad school expenses in less than 2 years.
The thing I noticed was that after a while of working OT, it seems completely natural. And when the cash starts to add-up, it seems like the preferred way live.
It’s possible to have fun while not spending a lot of money in the process.
I've tutored a few of them this year, young adults who would have great opportunities with the job market opening up, if they could get that HS diploma. They'd already established themselves as hard workers.
The ones I encountered were very frugal, having to live on not much more than minimum wage. The biggest danger they'd face is falling over to the dark side.
What I'm hopeful for is that this will translate into students after HS who can't afford college getting jobs with opportunities to move up instead of loans that will put them in forever debt.
GDP above 4% and rising wages, we're all going to die! /sarcasm
The eight hour workday is just a vague memory for older salaried workers anyway, reality is more like 60 or even 80 hour workweeks, take pleasure in actually being rewarded for “overtime” rather than it being expected of you in just the normal course of things. An hourly worker being paid a decent hourly rate, $20 or more, with some overtime can easily outstrip salaried recent college grads in entry level positions at the same company. College is not for everybody, hourly work is not for everybody. But, it’s good that everybody has hope and a decent shot at financial stability and a good life by their standards. This was once common knowledge in this country. We’re having to re-learn it now.
HEADLINE——women, children, minorities, undocumented workers hardest hit. Sarc on.
What an incredible luxury it was to slowly browse through the newspaper while sitting out at the apartment pool on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Trump does well with men with college degrees; he does super with men with no college and now he will win men without high school! WINNING!!
No wonder the left is going bat$#*+ crazy!
If I were a student in one of today’s high schools, I would drop out, too. Today, dropouts can educate themselves quite well as compared to the zombie majority receiving diplomas from weirdos.
President Trump loves the poorly educated. He said so.
Get ‘em working, earning, and learning!
Winning feels so good.
That's a big freaking deal. Thanks for the winning ping!
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