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Growth is not jobs numbnuts.
Even hard core leftist economists admit private jobs have not come back.
You're even to the left of them. LOL
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Google Labor Force Participation Rate. Then get back to me. Take your time.
3 words: Balance sheet recession
Google Labor Force Participation Rate. Then get back to me. Take your time.
Ok, how many decades does Obama have to be President in order for him to be (retroactively) responsible for jobs?
He's only responsible for his time as President. Feel free to graph the LFPR during his Presidency to show what a success it has been.
So first it was jobs, now its the labor participation rate.
You do know that more than half of the decline in participation rate can be explained by retirement of baby boomers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...e-worst-labor-participation-rate-in-40-years/
As Plumer pointed out, there are two key indicators that this is not just a demographic story: one, the number of Americans working or actively seeking work has actually fallen faster than demographers had predicted; and two, the participation rate for workers between ages 16 and 54 fell sharply during the recession and still hasnât recovered. Part of the reason for the latter may be that people are not entering the work force at the same rate, in part because they are spending more time getting an education.
Second, the employment-to-population ratio has been stable and inching up after the great fall during the recession.
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Wow, that's odd. Because the BLS itself doesn't show that type of chart. Here is theirs:
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000
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This shows the whole workforce, not a demographic slice that's convenient. And, just to clarify, this is the U3, not reflective of people who are underemployed, or have given up and become discouraged.
Now why don't you deflect into a different topic given this one didn't work.
Didn't work for who?
Presidential influence is quite clear in the data:
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