Category Archives: Unemployment

US companies slashing jobs and buying back stock further impacting consumerism, Citizen Wells warning of white employment decimation, Most jobs created under Obama part time and low paying, Immigrants rewarded at native born and economy expense

US companies slashing jobs and buying back stock further impacting consumerism, Citizen Wells warning of white employment decimation, Most jobs created under Obama part time and low paying, Immigrants rewarded at native born and economy expense

“In December 2014 there were 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country who had arrived since January 2000. But job growth over this period was just 9.3 million — half of new immigration.”…Center for Immigration Studies February 2015

“All of the employment gains among women since the recession hit in December 2007 have been taken by foreigners, even at a time when the numbers of U.S.-born women surged more than 600,000, according to new federal statistics.”…Washington Examiner August 7, 2015

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

 

 

Anybody listening, watching?

Citizen Wells has been warning you for many months about the decimation of white American, native born, jobs under Obama.

We have been constantly bombarded, in Orwellian, “1984” fashion about all the jobs created and strengthening economy.

Even the mainstream media cannot prop up the latest numbers.

And now we have another problem that cannot be ignored. And it will become a self fulfilling prophecy. Further affecting consumer spending.

Companies slashing employees and buying by stock.

From Market Watch October 2, 2015.

“Companies are cutting jobs and buying back stock at the same time

How would you feel if the company that just laid you off said it was spending millions of dollars, or even billions, to buy back its stock?

At least you wouldn’t feel lonely.

U.S. companies announced 205,759 job cuts during the third quarter, the most since the third quarter of 2009, just after the Great Recession, according to data provided by outplacement company Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. In September, the number of announced job cuts was nearly double what it was at the same time last year.

On Friday, the Labor Department released a stinker of a September jobs report.

At the same time, share repurchases announced by U.S. companies during the third quarter remains around the highest levels in at least the last decade, according to data provider Dealogic Ltd. In September, companies authorized buybacks totaling $243.4 billion, more than seven times the amount announced in the same month a year ago, Dealogic said.

One might think these corporate actions are mutually exclusive, but as the chart above shows, many companies are doing both. In fact, some companies have even announced job cuts and share buybacks in the same news release.”

“Industry expects said that often times, money used for stock buybacks comes from retained earnings—saved from the past—while layoffs reflect concerns about the future outlook for growth. When times are tough, however, it’s a different story.

“Whenever a company is laying off employees, something is not going the way it wanted it to,” said Dr. Michael McDonald, a professor at Fairfield University’s Dolan School of Business, in a phone interview with MarketWatch.

When a company is buying back stock and laying people off as its share price is falling, it could be viewed as “defensive” move, he said.”

Read more:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/companies-are-cutting-jobs-and-buying-back-stock-at-the-same-time-2015-10-02

From Rush Limbaugh October 2, 2015.

“There Is No Economic Recovery

RUSH: There’s also economic news out today on the jobs market. Once again, I predicted this. No surprise here. There is no economic recovery, zip, zero, nada, and there has not been for seven years. And Wall Street is practically now admitting it, and the Federal Reserve, by saying, “Well, I guess we can cease all this talk about raising interest rates.” There have been a lot of people seemingly waiting for interest rates to be raised by the Fed, because that would mean, wow, the economy is really exploding. Except it isn’t, it hasn’t even been close. We’re now over 94 million Americans not working. The labor force participation rate is nearing an all-time low in this country.”

“Now the economic news, finally. You know, for the past three or four years we’ve had to put up with a lying, stinking media, ignoring repeated bad news on the economy — be it wages or hours worked or full-time employment, unemployment, jobs in general, or whatever — and then on the rare occasion where a month would feature some in-and-of-itself good news, then that would be reported and built up into massive, great, year-round news that’s happening.

“The economy’s finally rebounded! The recovery is taking place! Job creation’s ongoing!” It was all lies. This economy… From Obama’s first year in office — when he first did the stimulus, the Porkulus bill — there has not been economic expansion, and more and more people have been leaving the workforce. People’s hours have been converted from full time to part time so that employers comply with Obamacare.”

“It was the lie.

It’s the creation of an illusion because people realize that perception is reality, and if you report enough to create a perception there’s a robust economy happening out there and a robust recovery, even people not experiencing it will believe it because, well, they see it on TV. So when the Fed says, “Well, I guess we can’t raise interest rates,” what that means is that there is no economic activity. Now, the jobs numbers this month are like 60,000 below analysts’, experts’ expectations or whatever.

But the fact of the matter is that month to month it’s been a game of the media working with jaundiced numbers provided by the government. The overall truth is there hasn’t been any economic recovery. The evidence is everywhere. Millennials can’t find jobs, Millennials, college graduates, can’t find careers. More and more people are living at home. The job market’s being flooded with illegal immigrants, which is depressing wages. I mean, there’s not one decent economic sign out there.”

Read more:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/10/02/there_is_no_economic_recovery

From Citizen Wells October 2, 2015.

“Citizen Wells has been warning you for many months.

The employment situation, despite the best efforts of the White House and mainstream to lie to you, is bad and getting worse.

White Americans, who still compose approx. two thirds of the working age population, have been decimated in employment under Obama.

White employment fell 135,000 in September.

White employment fell 267,000 since January.

The labor force participation rate fell to 62.4 percent the lowest since 1977.

A record 94.6 million Americans are not in the labor force.

A meager 142,000 “jobs” were created in September.

August “jobs” were revised downward 37,000 to 136,000.

We are closer to being in a depression that the recession we have been in.”

White employment down 267K in 2015, 142K “jobs” added, Participation rate plummets to Oct 1977 level, Americans not in labor force at record 94.6 million, August jobs revised down 37K to 136K

From Zero Hedge October 2, 2015.

“The US Has Added Three Times More Foreign-Born Workers Than Native-Born Since December 2007

If you thought the headline jobs print was bad, wait till you see this.

While we will show the quality of the jobs shortly (you guessed it: waiters and bartenders jumped, manufacturing workers tumbled), with the presidential elections, in which immigration has become the key topic coming up, a far more relevant issue is the spread between “native-born” workers (as defined by the BLS), and “foreign-born.” Expect the September data to provide much fodder for the upcoming republican and democratic debates.

But before we show what happened, here is a quick glance at the breakdown between full and part-time jobs in September. According to the BLS, 53,000 part-time jobs were added in September. The offset: a drop of 185,000 full-time jobs. Welcome, once again, to the part-time recovery we first profiled in December 2010.”

Read more:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-02/native-born-american-jobs-plunge-foreign-born-workers-rise-part-time-workers-surge

 

 

 

 

 

White employment down 267K in 2015, 142K “jobs” added, Participation rate plummets to Oct 1977 level, Americans not in labor force at record 94.6 million, August jobs revised down 37K to 136K

White employment down 267K in 2015, 142K “jobs” added, Participation rate plummets to Oct 1977 level, Americans not in labor force at record 94.6 million, August jobs revised down 37K to 136K

“In December 2014 there were 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country who had arrived since January 2000. But job growth over this period was just 9.3 million — half of new immigration.”…Center for Immigration Studies February 2015

“All of the employment gains among women since the recession hit in December 2007 have been taken by foreigners, even at a time when the numbers of U.S.-born women surged more than 600,000, according to new federal statistics.”…Washington Examiner August 7, 2015

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

 

 

 

Citizen Wells has been warning you for many months.

The employment situation, despite the best efforts of the White House and mainstream to lie to you, is bad and getting worse.

White Americans, who still compose approx. two thirds of the working age population, have been decimated in employment under Obama.

White employment fell 135,000 in September.

White employment fell 267,000 since January.

The labor force participation rate fell to 62.4 percent the lowest since 1977.

A record 94.6 million Americans are not in the labor force.

A meager 142,000 “jobs” were created in September.

August “jobs” were revised downward 37,000 to 136,000.

We are closer to being in a depression that the recession we have been in.

 

9.4 million more Americans below poverty line since economic crisis, 132K fewer white Americans employed in 2015, This is recovery?, White labor force participation rate down .6 percent since Jan, More job lies coming Friday, “1984”

9.4 million more Americans below poverty line since economic crisis, 132K fewer white Americans employed in 2015, This is recovery?, White labor force participation rate down .6 percent since Jan, More job lies coming Friday, “1984”

“In December 2014 there were 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country who had arrived since January 2000. But job growth over this period was just 9.3 million — half of new immigration.”…Center for Immigration Studies February 2015

“There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.”…Gallup CEO Jim Clifton 

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

 

 

Citizen Wells began warning you in 2008 that we were entering the age of Big Brother and “1984.”

The jobs report will come out this Friday and it is assured that it will contain more Orwellian reports of job gains.

Citizen Wells has been reporting on the more realistic number, the number of people employed and how it has fluctuated since Obama took office in January 2009. Especially the number of white Americans employed. You know, what was approx. two thirds of the US population.

You are aware from the reports here that the employment situation is horrible.

You also have awareness from paying attention and observing the impact on your family and those around you.

I know that I have.

The food banks that see record numbers of recipients and are constantly seeking more food.

The people who cannot find work or are working multiple part time jobs.

The record number of young people living with family members,

From Zero Hedge September 27, 2015.

“What Recovery? 9.4 Million More Americans Below Poverty Line Than Pre-Crisis

According to Janet Yellen, we are still on pace to raise rates in 2015. While the rate hike was supposed to happen this month, it got derailed by the August market selloff, volatility in China, lackluster work force numbers, and a variety of other factors.

Despite the Fed continuing to kick this down the road, they continue to claim that we are in the middle of an ongoing recovery. There’s just one problem with that: things are getting worse than pre-crisis levels for millions of the poorest Americans.”

“It’s true that the wealthiest 10% of Americans have finally seen their household incomes rise above the levels last seen in 2007. It’s also true that median incomes have “recovered” from the worst of the 2008 disaster. Median earners were -8.1% worse off in 2011, and now they are only -6.5% worse off according to most recent data for 2014 released by the U.S. Census Bureau last week.

However, when we look at the lowest 10% of income earners, the situation is much more precarious. In 2011, the bottom 10% of households were -9.0% worse off in terms of income than they were pre-crisis. Since then, it hasn’t gotten any better: they now are making -11.6% less income than they were in 2007.

Possibly even more concerning is the fact that the amount of Americans living below the poverty line has soared since 2007. There are now 9.4 million more people that can claim to be a part of this unfortunate group, and the total contingent living below the poverty line now makes up 14.8% of all Americans. This is also an increase from the 12.5% figure from before the Great Recession.”

Read more:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-27/what-recovery-94-million-more-americans-below-poverty-line-pre-crisis

From Citizen Wells September 4, 2015.

“There was an increase in 23,000 white American employment in August.
However, white employment is down 132,000 since January!!!

***

***  Update 9:10 AM  ***

Almost 1.5 million more white Americans dropped out of labor force since Jan.

White employment to population ratio down .3 percent since Jan.

White labor force participation rate down .6 percent since Jan.

***

Regardless of the unemployment rate and jobs data provided by the US Labor Department this morning, September 4, 2015, the real employment situation can also be found in their data.

White employment.

WhiteEmployment

Hispanic employment.

HispanicEmployment

I found this article by Business Insider from February 10, 2011.

“No One Looking At This Chart Could Possibly Call It A Recovery””

Read more:

US Labor Dept. employment charts reveal no jobs recovery for native born Americans, September 4, 2015, Low wage part time jobs going to immigrants, Business Insider warning from 2011, Economic flows provided through unemployment checks food stamps FDR style spending

 

 

Jan Hatzius Goldman “Fed Should Think About Easing”, Recent events have largely sealed the case against a rate hike next week, We expect modest downward revisions to GDP growth in 2016 and 2017 in light of tighter financial conditions

Jan Hatzius Goldman “Fed Should Think About Easing”, Recent events have largely sealed the case against a rate hike next week, We expect modest downward revisions to GDP growth in 2016 and 2017 in light of tighter financial conditions

“All of the employment gains among women since the recession hit in December 2007 have been taken by foreigners, even at a time when the numbers of U.S.-born women surged more than 600,000, according to new federal statistics.”…Washington Examiner August 7, 2015

“There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.”…Gallup CEO Jim Clifton 

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

 

 

Several months ago when I engaged in an email debate with Jan Hatzius of Goldman regarding the employment situation and impact of baby boomers, I came to the conclusion that he and other economists were too entrenched in the theoretical realm of economies to see the reality of the economy and employment in the US.

Are Jan Hatzius and Goldman finally facing a reality check on the real condition of the economy?

From Zero Hedge September 12, 2015.

“Is Yellen About To Shock Everyone: Goldman Says The “Fed Should Think About Easing””

“What a difference a little over a year makes.

Back in January 2014, just after the Fed announced the tapering of QE (because, you know, the “date-dependent” Fed would never be tapering if the economy wasn’t improving, right?) the propaganda machine went into overdrive, with Wall Street’s pet economist, not to mention the NY Fed’s key “outside advisor”, Goldman Jan Hatzius preaching that the long awaited recovery had finally arrived.

This is how the tabloid pseudo-finance website Business Insider characterized his call at the time: “Goldman’s top economist, Jan Hatzius, just said the words we’ve been wanting to hear for five years. He believes the economy is now growing at an above-trend pace.””

“For what it was worth, we disagreed with Hatzius, noting that this would simply be the second time in five years Goldman has jumped the “recovery” shark after its dramatic reversal in December 2010 when as QE 2 was ending, Goldman once again sought to boost wholesale confidence by going fundamentally bullish and saying “This outlook represents a fundamental shift in the thinking that has
governed our forecast for at least the last five years.”

Fast forward a little over a year when we learn that Goldman was once again wrong (for what it’s worth, naturally Business Insider was too).

First it was in April of 2015 – some 16 months after his “bold” prediction – that the same “above trend growth”-forecasting Hatzius said we “do not have much confidence in the inflation outlook and believe that the right policy would be to put hikes on hold for now.”

But… what happened to above trend growth?

Then in the first week of June, Hatzius once again hedged saying “Our forecast remains that the Fed policy committee will hike rates at the September meeting, but …this remains a close call. There is a strong risk management case for delaying liftoff.” In other words, the market determines Fed policy, not the economy, despite the reflexive lies to the opposite.

Then just two weeks later, on June 18, Hatzius having long given up on his “above trend growth” forecast changed his tune again, and now said he expected a December rate hike instead.

“In large part this reflects the fact that seven FOMC participants are now projecting zero or one rate hike this year, a group that we believe includes Fed Chair Janet Yellen…. We had viewed a clear signal for a September hike at the June meeting as close to a necessary condition for the FOMC to actually hike in September, because we did not believe that the FOMC would want to surprise markets on the hawkish side when they raise the funds rate.”

Of course, if the economy had grown at an “above trend pace” since his January 2014 call, the Fed would have to be at 1% or higher by now.

Just to make sure nobody is surprised next week when Yellen does not hike and unleashes a massive relief rally, Hatzius added that a September rate hike announcement this Thursday “shouldn’t be close”, and as we showed previously, unveiled 7 reasons why. Amazing how Goldman’s narrative changes with every month.

And then, the humiliation was complete last night when the same Jan Hatzius, having long-forgotten his January 2014 prediction, in a note previewing the US economy in “September and Beyond” had this to say:

In our view, the recent events have largely sealed the case against a rate hike next week. Fed officials have made clear that “data dependent” policy refers to incoming economic news as well as factors that could impinge on the outlook—including changes in financial conditions…. The news on wage and price inflation, however, has been softer than generally expected a few months ago…. most of the inflation shortfall relative to the Fed’s 2% target is due to more persistent factors, including continued labor market slack.

We expect modest downward revisions to GDP growth in 2016 and 2017 in light of tighter financial conditions.
Hm… maybe Jan meant below-trend growth?

And here we get to the punchline, because Goldman which originally expected a September rate hike, then pushed it to December in June, is now fairly confident that there may not be a 2015 rate hike at all!”

Read more:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-12/yellen-about-shock-everyone-goldman-says-fed-should-think-about-easing

As reported at Citizen Wells September 4, 2015, white employment is down 132,000 since January 2015.

US Labor Dept. employment charts reveal no jobs recovery for native born Americans, September 4, 2015, Low wage part time jobs going to immigrants, Business Insider warning from 2011, Economic flows provided through unemployment checks food stamps FDR style spending

White House aka big brother August 2015 employment situation report vs reality (truth), 13.1 million jobs added over 66 straight months??, Obama et al have exceeded lies of “1984”, White American employment up 1.14 million under Obama, Hispanics gained most

White House aka big brother August 2015 employment situation report vs reality (truth), 13.1 million jobs added over 66 straight months??, Obama et al have exceeded lies of “1984”, White American employment up 1.14 million under Obama, Hispanics gained most

“In December 2014 there were 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country who had arrived since January 2000. But job growth over this period was just 9.3 million — half of new immigration.”…Center for Immigration Studies February 2015

“All of the employment gains among women since the recession hit in December 2007 have been taken by foreigners, even at a time when the numbers of U.S.-born women surged more than 600,000, according to new federal statistics.”…Washington Examiner August 7, 2015

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

 

 

George Orwell conjured up government lies emanating from Big Brother and the Ministry of Plenty in “1984” but his imagination could not touch the lies and mechanisms for spreading them employed by the Obama Administration and their lackeys the mainstream media.

From WhiteHouse.gov September 4, 2015. (have your barf bags handy)

“The Employment Situation in August

Summary: In August, the economy added 140,000 jobs, extending the longest streak of private sector job growth on record.

Our economy has now added 8.0 million jobs over the past three years, a pace that has not been exceeded since 2000. And while the economy added jobs at a somewhat slower pace in August than in recent months, the unemployment rate fell to 5.1 percent—its lowest level since April 2008—and the labor force participation rate remained stable. Our businesses have now added 13.1 million jobs over 66 straight months, extending the longest streak on record. In addition, hourly earnings for American workers continued to rise. But there’s more work to do to ensure that America’s domestic momentum can continue to offset some of the headwinds from the global economy. That starts with avoiding self-inflicted wounds: Congress needs to pass a budget that reverses the sequester and avoids shutting down the government. But it’s also why the President is committed to pushing Congress to increase investments in infrastructure as part of a long-term transportation reauthorization, open new markets with expanded trade, and raise the minimum wage.”

1. The private sector has added 13.1 million jobs over 66 straight months of job growth, extending the longest streak on record. Today we learned that private-sector employment rose by 140,000 in August, below the recent pace. Despite the monthly volatility in employment growth, long-term trends remain strong. The unemployment rate declined to 5.1 percent, its lowest level since early 2008, while the labor force participation rate remained stable. Wages continued to rise, with average hourly earnings for all private-sector workers up 2.2 percent over the past year.

Jobs chart August 2015

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/09/04/employment-situation-august

Reality

From the US Labor Department.

From January 2009 to August 2015.

White American employment up 1.14 million.

WhiteEmploymentObama

Hispanic employment up 4.549 million.

HispanicEmploymentObama

From Zero Hedge September 2, 2015.

“Exposing The Lie Behind The “Strong Jobs Recovery” In One Chart

With all eyes glued to Friday’s payrolls report, we thought it worth reiterating some ‘facts’ about US employment data. As ECRI notes, the sustained decline in the official jobless rate – now approaching the Fed’s estimate of “full employment” – is a misleading indicator of labor market slack. The data shows that the so-called jobs recovery has been spearheaded by cheap labor, with job gains going disproportionately to the least educated — and lowest-paid — workers.”

Read more:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-02/exposing-lie-behind-strong-jobs-recovery-one-chart

From Zero Hedge September 2, 2015.

“New Record In Waiters And Bartenders Masks First Manufacturing Drop In Over 2 Years”

“Putting this all together, since the start of the Second Great Depression, the US economy has lost 1.4 million manufacturing workers, but has more than made up for this with the addition ff 1.5 million waiters and bartenders.”

Read more:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-04/first-drop-manufacturing-workers-over-2-years-offset-new-record-waiters-and-bartende

 

 

US Labor Dept. employment charts reveal no jobs recovery for native born Americans, September 4, 2015, Low wage part time jobs going to immigrants, Business Insider warning from 2011, Economic flows provided through unemployment checks food stamps FDR style spending

US Labor Dept. employment charts reveal no jobs recovery for native born Americans, September 4, 2015, Low wage part time jobs going to immigrants, Business Insider warning from 2011, Economic flows provided through unemployment checks food stamps FDR style spending

“In December 2014 there were 18 million immigrants (legal and illegal) living in the country who had arrived since January 2000. But job growth over this period was just 9.3 million — half of new immigration.”…Center for Immigration Studies February 2015

“There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.”…Gallup CEO Jim Clifton 

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

***  Update 8:55 AM  ***

“Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 173,000 in August, and the
unemployment rate edged down to 5.1 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.”

There was an increase in 23,000 white American employment in August.
However, white employment is down 132,000 since January!!!

***

***  Update 9:10 AM  ***

Almost 1.5 million more white Americans dropped out of labor force since Jan.

White employment to population ratio down .3 percent since Jan.

White labor force participation rate down .6 percent since Jan.

***

Regardless of the unemployment rate and jobs data provided by the US Labor Department this morning, September 4, 2015, the real employment situation can also be found in their data.

White employment.

WhiteEmployment

Hispanic employment.

HispanicEmployment

I found this article by Business Insider from February 10, 2011.

“No One Looking At This Chart Could Possibly Call It A Recovery”

“Currently the problem in the US jobs market mainly lies with, what I call, the maintenance rate. This is the minimum monthly job creation rate that our enormous system–our economy and government with its revenues and liabilities–must have in order to maintain itself as population grows. Getting lost in the weeds, therefore, of monthly unemployment rates is a waste of time. After having lost 8+ million jobs from the top of the last expansion, nitpicking one’s way through the additions, revisions, and changes to the presumed size of the work force misses the point. And that’s this: any month in which the US does not create at least 125,000 jobs, from a systemic point of view, is negative. It’s less than zero.”

“Now you know why annual government budgets have blown out into the the trillions: the economic flows normally provided by a functioning economy are now provided through unemployment checks, food stamps, FDR style spending and other distributions. In short, the “economy” cannot be experiencing a recovery when, after 10 years of population growth and growth in future liabilities, the number of people employed is hovering around levels last seen in 2002-2004. Whether you chose to look at just Non-Farm Employment, or Total Employment, the US Labor Market is essentially flat-lining since a deep trough was reached in late 2009, early 2010.

Those who would make sweeping claims about a recovery in the entire economy should place these two charts shown here in their printed columns, along with the fact that the US population has grown by over 25 million people since the year 2000.”

Read more:

http://www.businessinsider.com/when-recoverys-just-a-word-2011-2

The referenced study from above was retrieved from the WayBack Machine.

Why was it scrubbed?

From the Brookings Institute February 4, 2011.

“The traditional unemployment rate does not fully capture the extent of labor underutilization in our economy. In addition to the 14 million Americans who are officially counted as unemployed (the jobless who are still actively looking for work), there are over 11 million Americans who either want to work but have given up looking, or who are underemployed in the sense that they are working part time because full-time work is unavailable. These additional workers are less visible but are undoubtedly victims of the recent recession.”

“The Hamilton Project explores the monthly “job gap” based on the employment numbers—or the number of jobs the economy needs in order to return to return to pre-recession employment levels while absorbing the 125,000 people who enter the labor force each month.

The annual revision to the historical payroll numbers released with the January report paint an even starker picture for the job gap this month, increasing it to 12.4 million jobs.

The chart below shows the evolution of the job gap since the start of the Great Recession in December 2007. The thick line in the chart below shows the net number of jobs lost since the Great Recession began.

The broken lines display the date by which the jobs gap would be closed under alternative assumptions about the rate of job creation going forward. If the economy adds about 208,000 jobs per month, the average monthly rate for the best year of job creation in the 2000s, then it will take until July 2023 to close the job gap. At a more optimistic rate of 321,000 jobs per month, the average monthly rate for the best year of the 1990s, the economy will reach pre-recession employment levels by May 2016. ”

https://web.archive.org/web/20110209104602/http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0204_jobs_greenstone_looney.aspx

From Zero Hedge September 2, 2015.

“Exposing The Lie Behind The “Strong Jobs Recovery” In One Chart”

“With all eyes glued to Friday’s payrolls report, we thought it worth reiterating some ‘facts’ about US employment data. As ECRI notes, the sustained decline in the official jobless rate – now approaching the Fed’s estimate of “full employment” – is a misleading indicator of labor market slack. The data shows that the so-called jobs recovery has been spearheaded by cheap labor, with job gains going disproportionately to the least educated — and lowest-paid — workers.

Indeed, the stagnation in nominal wage growth is consistent with the weakness in the employment/population (E/P) ratio. That said, even the E/P ratio may be overstating the health of the jobs market.

After dropping to three-decade lows in the wake of the Great Recession, the E/P ratio, has barely improved since the fall of 2013, reversing only about one-fifth of its decline from its pre-recession highs.”

Read more:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-02/exposing-lie-behind-strong-jobs-recovery-one-chart

 

It’s not China stupid it’s the US economy jobs and global economies, Orwell’s 1984 warned us, Lies You Will Hear As The Economic Collapse Progresses

It’s not China stupid it’s the US economy jobs and global economies, Orwell’s 1984 warned us, Lies You Will Hear As The Economic Collapse Progresses

“All of the employment gains among women since the recession hit in December 2007 have been taken by foreigners, even at a time when the numbers of U.S.-born women surged more than 600,000, according to new federal statistics.”…Washington Examiner August 7, 2015

“U.S. food banks are expected to give away about 4 billion pounds of food this year, more than double the amount provided a decade ago, according to Feeding America, the nation’s primary food bank network. The group gave away 3.8 billion in 2013.
While reliance on food banks exploded when the economy tanked in 2008, groups said demand continues to rise year after year, leaving them scrambling to find more food.”…Associated Press August 13, 2015

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

 

 

Citizen Wells has been quoting George Orwell’s “1984” since 2008 and warning you of the lies being told about jobs, the US economy and decimation of employment of white native born Americans and millennials.

We have been lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.

The lies continue with the recent plunge in financial markets being blamed on the Chinese economy.

Sure, what happens in China affects the US.

But what happens in the US also affects China.

From Zero Hedge August 27, 2015.

“Lies You Will Hear As The Economic Collapse Progresses”

“It is undeniable; the final collapse triggers are upon us, triggers alternative economists have been warning about since the initial implosion of 2008. In the years since the derivatives disaster, there has been no end to the absurd and ludicrous propaganda coming out of mainstream financial outletsand as the situation in markets becomes worse, the propaganda will only increase. This might seem counter-intuitive to many. You would think that the more obvious the economic collapse becomes, the more alternative analysts will be vindicated and the more awake and aware the average person will be. Not necessarily…

In fact, the mainstream spin machine is going into high speed the more negative data is exposed and absorbed into the markets. If you know your history, then you know that this is a common tactic by the establishment elite to string the public along with false hopes so that they do not prepare or take alternative measures while the system crumbles around their ears. At the onset of the Great Depression the same strategies were used. Consider if you’ve heard similar quotes to these in the mainstream news over the past couple months:”

“Here is the issue – as I have ALWAYS said, economic collapse is not a singular event, it is a process. The global economy has been in the process of collapse since 2008 and it never left that path. Those who were ignorant took government statistics at face value and the manipulated bull market as legitimate and refused to acknowledge the fundamentals. Now, with markets recently suffering one of the greatest freefalls since the 2008/2009 crash, they are witnessing the folly of their assumptions, but that does not mean they will accept them or apologize for them outright. If there is one lesson I have learned well during my time in the Liberty Movement, it is to never underestimate the power of normalcy bias.”

“The establishment has made every effort to hide the fundamentals from the public through far reaching misrepresentations of economic stats. However, the days of effective disinformation in terms of the financial system are coming to an end. As investors and the general public begin to absorb the reality that the global economy is indeed witnessing a vast crisis scenario and acknowledges real numbers over fraudulent numbers, the only recourse of central bankers and the governments they control is to convince the public that the crisis they are witnessing is not really a crisis. That is to say, the establishment will attempt to marginalize the collapse signals they can no longer hide as if such signals are of “minimal” importance.”

“It’s Not As Bad As It Seems

Yes, it is exactly as bad as it seems if not worse. When the Dow can open 1000 points down on a Monday and China can lose all of its gains for 2015 in the span of a few weeks despite institutionalized stimulus measures lasting years, then something is very wrong. This is not a “hiccup”. This is not a correction which has already hit bottom. This is only the beginning of the end.

Stocks are not a predictive indicator. They do not follow positive or negative fundamentals. Stocks do not crash before or during the development of an ailing economy. Stocks crash after the economy has already gone comatose. Stocks crash when the system is no longer salvageable. Since 2008, nothing in the global financial structure has been salvaged and now the central banking edifice is either unable or unwilling (I believe both) to supply the tools to allow us even to pretend that it can be salvaged. We’re going to feel the hurt now, all while the establishment tells us the whole thing is in our heads.”

I urge you to read more:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-27/lies-you-will-hear-economic-collapse-progresses

 

 

Food bank demand reveals real economy, Obama jobs are mostly part time low wage and going to immigrants, White American employment decimated under Obama, Census bureau reports 1 in 5 children receives food stamps, Higher than before 2007 recession

Food bank demand reveals real economy, Obama jobs are mostly part time low wage and going to immigrants, White American employment decimated under Obama, Census bureau reports 1 in 5 children receives food stamps, Higher than before 2007 recession

“All of the employment gains among women since the recession hit in December 2007 have been taken by foreigners, even at a time when the numbers of U.S.-born women surged more than 600,000, according to new federal statistics.”…Washington Examiner August 7, 2015

“There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.”…Gallup CEO Jim Clifton 

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

 

 

The horses’ asses in the White House are not telling you the truth about the economy and real jobs situation.

The horses’ asses in the media are not either.

But the truth cannot be hidden forever.

Look at the suffering around you.

I am constantly hearing reports of local and national food banks running out of food and the sharp increase in demand.

It stands to reason that with the near depression level jobs market that we have that people would be forced to stand in bread and soup lines.

From the Associated Press August 13, 2015.

“FOOD BANKS STRUGGLE TO MEET SURPRISING DEMAND”

“Food banks across the country are seeing a rising demand for free groceries despite the growing economy, leading some charities to reduce the amount of food they offer each family.

U.S. food banks are expected to give away about 4 billion pounds of food this year, more than double the amount provided a decade ago, according to Feeding America, the nation’s primary food bank network. The group gave away 3.8 billion in 2013.

While reliance on food banks exploded when the economy tanked in 2008, groups said demand continues to rise year after year, leaving them scrambling to find more food.

“We get lines of people every day, starting at 6:30 in the morning,” said Sheila Moore, who oversees food distribution at The Storehouse, the largest pantry in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and one where food distribution has climbed 15 percent in the past year.

Across the country in Gloucester, Massachusetts, The Open Door food pantry has given away 7.6 percent more food this summer than last, said the organization’s executive director, Julie LaFontaine.”

“James Ziliak, who founded the Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky, said the increased demand is surprising since the economy is growing and unemployment has dropped from 10 percent during the recession to 5.3 percent last month.

However, many people who have found jobs are working only part-time or for low wages, and others have stopped looking for work.”

“People who have low-wage jobs, who aren’t receiving regular raises, are finding those earnings stretched thin,” Ziliak said.

The drop in food stamp rolls by nearly 2.5 million people from recession levels could be contributing to the food bank demand, he said, because people who no longer qualify for the government aid may still not earn enough to pay their bills.

Read more:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FOOD_BANKS_IN_DEMAND?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-08-13-13-27-53

From the US Census Bureau.

“One in Five Children Receive Food Stamps, Census Bureau Reports”

“The number of children receiving food stamps remains higher than it was before the start of the Great Recession in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual Families and Living Arrangements table package released today.

The rate of children living with married parents who receive food stamps has doubled since 2007. In 2014, an estimated 16 million children, or about one in five, received food stamp assistance compared with the roughly 9 million children, or one in eight, that received this form of assistance prior to the recession.”

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-16.html

From Citizen Wells August 10, 2015.

“Citizen Wells has been warning you.

All of those so called job gains under Obama, many of which are part time, low paying jobs, don’t add up to employment for US born citizens.

Just yesterday we reported that the monthly jobs added don’t add up at all, unless you use Orwellian math.

“Let’s examine the latest jobs report.

“Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 215,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.”

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

For the rest of the data we will access the same US Labor Dept. Historical tables.

Change from June to July:

Total employed + 101,000

White – 62,000 (you read that right, minus)

Black + 33,000

Asian + 21,000

Hispanic – 27,000

See anything wrong with that?

215,000 jobs added???

It gets worse.

Change from January to July:

Regardless of which revision to the monthly jobs report that you use, if you add up the mythical jobs added from February to July 2015 you get well over 1.2 million.

How does this square with the employment changes from the US Labor Dept?

Total employed + 639,000

White – 155,000 (you read that right, minus)

Black + 463,000

Asian + 211,000

Hispanic + 69,000

See any problems there?”

https://citizenwells.com/2015/08/09/monthly-us-labor-dept-jobs-data-not-matching-employment-where-are-donald-trump-rush-limbaugh-sean-hannity-6-month-comparison-reveals-total-employment-only-up-639k-white-employment-down-155k-fin/

Using the same US Labor Dept. Historical charts that the Washington Examiner used below, you will find that under the first 6 years of Obama, 75 percent of employment gains went to Hispanics.

From the Washington Examiner August 7, 2015.

“Jobs shock: 100% of female employment gains taken by foreigners since 2007

All of the employment gains among women since the recession hit in December 2007 have been taken by foreigners, even at a time when the numbers of U.S.-born women surged more than 600,000, according to new federal statistics.”

Female job gains since 2007 taken by immigrants, US born women lost 64k jobs, Foreign born women gained 1 million jobs, 25 million foreign workers hold jobs inside the United States, First 6 years of Obama 75 percent of employment went to Hispanics

 

 

Wendy’s minimum wage hike impact on employment, Businesses do not pay for taxes and minimum wage hikes employees and consumers do, Last minimum wage increase eliminated 300k jobs, Obamacare and Obama part time job economy will worsen

Wendy’s minimum wage hike impact on employment, Businesses do not pay for taxes and minimum wage hikes employees and consumers do, Last minimum wage increase eliminated 300k jobs, Obamacare and Obama part time job economy will worsen

“The truth is, raising the minimum wage could be just about the worst thing he could do for the jobs market. We are already 7 million jobs in the hole, 7 million fewer jobs than when the President took office. Raising the minimum wage means employers whose businesses are struggling will simply get rid of jobs. They will cut workers. According to the Heritage Foundation, the last minimum wage increase eliminated 300,000 jobs”…Gerri Willis Fox News February 13, 2013

“One of the CBO’s most intriguing estimates is that by 2017 there will be 2 million fewer full-time jobs on the market than there would have been without Obamacare, and that figure could climb to 2.5 million by 2024.”…Market Watch February 4, 2014

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

 

 

We have Hillary Clinton talking about raising taxes, Obama and the left trying to raise the minimum wage and this all sounds great to low information voters.

The reality is that these measures kill jobs and hurt the very people they are supposed to help.

From Fox Business February 13, 2013.

“The truth is, raising the minimum wage could be just about the worst thing he could do for the jobs market. We are already 7 million jobs in the hole, 7 million fewer jobs than when the President took office. Raising the minimum wage means employers whose businesses are struggling will simply get rid of jobs. They will cut workers. According to the Heritage Foundation, the last minimum wage increase eliminated 300,000 jobs,

For a president who says he won’t sleep until everybody who wants a job has one, get some NoDoz because there are going to be some sleepless nights.

There are unintended consequences of a higher wage policy, but there is also the fact that the President inaccurately depicts the people on minimum wage. If you surmised from the President’s description that minimum wage workers were single mothers balancing a job at McDonald’s and caring for her children, you’d be wrong.  Most minimum wage workers aren’t adults but people 25 years of age and under, and 60% work part-time.

The true picture of the typical minimum wage worker is a high school or college student with a part-time job, balancing work with the demands of an academic life. Do they deserve a 14% pay hike?

According to the Heritage Foundation, people who are paid minimum wage typically live in households with incomes two or more times over the official poverty level. Non-economists refer to them as mom and dad.

Here’s what the President doesn’t understand that you probably do: minimum wage jobs are training positions. The employer contributes every bit as much to the worker in terms of training teaching job skills, good work habits, how to meet expectations, as the worker does. That’s why these folks aren’t getting top dollar. They are newbies.

The job market is full of people performing at different levels and they all don’t get paid the same amount of money! That is fair, right and good.

Oh, and by the way, two-thirds of minimum wage workers don’t earn minimum wage after a year. They get a raise!”

Read more:

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/willis-report/blog/2013/02/13/obama-s-minimum-wage-job-killer

From Zero Hedge August 11, 2015.

“Wendy’s Explains What Happens When Fry Cooks Make $15/Hour”

“At the most basic level, the argument against hastily construed wage hikes is that forcing employers to pay everyone more will simply prompt companies to fire people or at the very least, curtail hiring. As one Burger King franchisee recently told CBS, “[fast food] businesses are not going to pay $15 dollars an hour [because] the economics don’t work in this industry. There is a limit to what you’re going to pay for a hamburger.”

With that in mind, we present the following commentary from Wendy’s most recent conference call with no comment:

Todd A. Penegor – Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President
Yeah. So we continue to see pressure on wages two fronts, one is minimum wages at the state level continue to increase, and as there is a war on talent to make sure that we’re competitive in certain markets. So we’ve made some adjustments to that starting wage in certain markets. The impact hasn’t been material at the moment, but we continue to look at initiatives on how we do work to offset any impact to future wage inflation through technology initiatives, whether that’s customer self-order kiosks, whether that’s automating more in the back of the house in the restaurant, and you’ll see a lot more coming on that front later this year from us.

John William Ivankoe – JPMorgan Securities LLC
Okay, understood. I mean there is obviously a lot of discussion of wage prices, wage costs and that there would be increased pricing at the franchise level to offset those increased wages, especially in markets like New York for example that are going to see some very severe increases in wage costs. So can you juxtapose the franchisees’ desire and/or need to take pricing at the store level with what sounds like an increased focus overall for the brand on value, can those two things be achieved simultaneously?

Emil J. Brolick – President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Yeah, John, this is Emil. And our franchisees, I find them to be very astute business people, and they have a great sense of their trade areas where their restaurants are and a great I think understanding of what the competitive environment is in terms of their capacity to price. I think the reality is that what you will see in like some of these markets, the New Yorks, where there is these very significant increases, is that they will be – our franchisee will slightly likely look at the opportunity to reduce overall staff, look at the opportunity to certainly reduce hours and any other cost reduction opportunities, not just price. There are some people out there who naively say that these wages can simply be passed along in terms of price increases. I don’t think that the average franchisee believes that, and there will have to be other consequences, which is why we have pointed out that unfortunately we believe the some of these increases will clearly end up hurting the people that they are intended to help.”

Read more:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-11/wendys-explains-what-happens-when-fry-cooks-make-15hour

 

 

Female job gains since 2007 taken by immigrants, US born women lost 64k jobs, Foreign born women gained 1 million jobs, 25 million foreign workers hold jobs inside the United States, First 6 years of Obama 75 percent of employment went to Hispanics

Female job gains since 2007 taken by immigrants, US born women lost 64k jobs, Foreign born women gained 1 million jobs, 25 million foreign workers hold jobs inside the United States, First 6 years of Obama 75 percent of employment went to Hispanics

“All of the employment gains among women since the recession hit in December 2007 have been taken by foreigners, even at a time when the numbers of U.S.-born women surged more than 600,000, according to new federal statistics.”…Washington Examiner August 7, 2015

“There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.”…Gallup CEO Jim Clifton 

“We are being lied to on a scale unimaginable by George Orwell.”…Citizen Wells

 

 

Citizen Wells has been warning you.

All of those so called job gains under Obama, many of which are part time, low paying jobs, don’t add up to employment for US born citizens.

Just yesterday we reported that the monthly jobs added don’t add up at all, unless you use Orwellian math.

“Let’s examine the latest jobs report.

“Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 215,000 in July, and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 5.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.”

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

For the rest of the data we will access the same US Labor Dept. Historical tables.

Change from June to July:

Total employed + 101,000

White – 62,000 (you read that right, minus)

Black + 33,000

Asian + 21,000

Hispanic – 27,000

See anything wrong with that?

215,000 jobs added???

It gets worse.

Change from January to July:

Regardless of which revision to the monthly jobs report that you use, if you add up the mythical jobs added from February to July 2015 you get well over 1.2 million.

How does this square with the employment changes from the US Labor Dept?

Total employed + 639,000

White – 155,000 (you read that right, minus)

Black + 463,000

Asian + 211,000

Hispanic + 69,000

See any problems there?”

Monthly US Labor Dept. jobs data not matching employment, Where are Donald Trump Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity??, 6 month comparison reveals total employment only up 639k, White employment down 155k, Financial markets react to flawed monthly data

Using the same US Labor Dept. Historical charts that the Washington Examiner used below, you will find that under the first 6 years of Obama, 75 percent of employment gains went to Hispanics.

From the Washington Examiner August 7, 2015.

“Jobs shock: 100% of female employment gains taken by foreigners since 2007

All of the employment gains among women since the recession hit in December 2007 have been taken by foreigners, even at a time when the numbers of U.S.-born women surged more than 600,000, according to new federal statistics.

The jobs data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed gains in the “employment level” among “foreign born women” and losses among “native born women.”

The charts show that 9.041 million foreign-born women held jobs in December of 2007 compared to 10.028 million today – or a gain of roughly 1 million jobs.

In contrast, 59.322 million U.S.-born women held jobs in December of 2007 compared to 59.258 million today – or a loss of nearly 64,000 jobs.

Overall, nearly 25 million foreign workers, men and women, hold jobs inside the United States, according to a Senate immigration expert.”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jobs-shock-100-of-female-employment-gains-taken-by-foreigners-since-2007/article/2569824?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Washington%20Secrets%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Washington%20Secrets%20PMI%20-%2008/07/15&utm_medium=email