Current comparisons to Hans Christian Anderson’s the Emperor’s New Robe are remarkable, even though the deception and misdirection labeled political correctness was unfamiliar to the Author 37 years into the 19th century. Would-be Emperor Obama’s insistence that he has a pen and phone to govern, instead of cooperating with an increasingly conservative, duly elected legislative body, indicates remarkable disdain and open disregard for Constitutional constraints placed upon the Presidency. To further his deleterious fundamental change, it’s been necessary to create a narrative substantially different from reality to minimize resistance from the electorate.
During Obama’s State of the Union address, he referenced a thriving, healed economy, claiming 11 million jobs added over the past five years showed enviable growth and an impressive turn from the 8.33 million jobs lost in 2009 and 2010. Of course, he left the abysmal losses from his first two years out, which included a net workforce loss of 4,568,262 in 2010 alone from that incredible, audacious claim. Misleading doesn’t begin to describe the reality of Americans’ pervasive workforce malaise over the past six years, which has turned into 93,686,000 former, and mostly still potential, contributors relegated to Not in Labor Force counts on the Department of Labor’s BLS Employment Situation Report.
A month ago, Gallup CEO Jim Clifton answered the President’s SOTU claim with a rare challenge from a recognizable, respected voice with an article titled “The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment”. His observation was followed by a series of interviews and seemingly incredulous media interrogation. Like the weavers’ claims that anyone who couldn’t see the Emperor’s robe was stupid and unfit for their position, the common theme from the mainstream media was Clifton was wrong, deluded, and according to liberals’ beloved PC first-line-of-defense, a hater. Absent from the series of interviews was any actual analysis of the published workforce numbers, which would have left Clifton looking like the boy who started the murmurs about a pretend invisible robe no one saw.
At the end of January, the Employment & Training Administration (ETA) released its final year-end quarterly count of the nation’s employed on r539cy, and Friday, February 6th saw Obama’s 72nd monthly BLS Employment Situation Report close a sixth year of workforce data while he’s served as Chief Executive. Since the President opened his State of the Union Address by announcing his Administration has overseen an economy that’s grown the fastest and added the most jobs since 1999, and boasted of creating more than 11 million jobs over five years, real substantive data seems warranted for a narrative the electorate was disbelieving of in November. Obama held little back on January 20th, proclaiming the economy healed and his Administration’s historic, recession turning results, Reaganesque.
Before looking at whose version of the American economy the breadth of statistics support, it might be appropriate to include a brief explanation of the DOL’s data gathering process and roles for its BLS and ETA divisions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) gathers extensive results from two separate surveys monthly: The Household Survey and The Establishment Survey. All Table A, Household Data is compiled from responses from about 50,000 strategically selected households across a range of pre-determined, reportedly representative households nationwide. Their survey data is included for four consecutive months before being rolled off for the next pre-selected households, then eight months later the surveyed families return for another round. The number of households surveyed monthly represents a ratio of about 3 out of 20,000 nationwide. Actual survey results from the selected households are shown in Not Seasonally Adjusted data, while BLS statisticians apply judgment and are allowed latitude for determining Seasonally Adjusted estimates to smooth suspected anomalies and data significantly different from what’s anticipated.
The ETA’s data gathering is more extensive, and by most accounts, comprehensive, coming from real, supportable figures reported by all 50 States’ Employment Offices nationwide. Claims for unemployment after job losses are counted, and employers’ payroll records, including contributions toward unemployment insurance for the nation’s employed, produce actual numbers superior to, and more representative than, the limited survey estimates released by the BLS. ETA counts were easy to track and follow and seemed straightforward, at least through July 23, 2013 when Thomas Perez replaced Hilda Solis as Obama’s appointed Labor Secretary.
While BLS figures get media attention and widespread release to the American public, the ETA figures seem worthy of presenting here ahead of looking at BLS figures. The latter will address more than just the two or three figures chosen by the President’s appointed Labor Secretary to selectively represent fully 550 distinct Household Data, Table A measures of demographics ranging from age, race, ethnicity, citizenship and education levels, among others believed to give a snapshot of the nation’s workforce.
Since the pace of jobs added and claims of 11 million new jobs filled over the past five years was central to Obama’s boast of a healed economy, let’s look at the ETA count of the nation’s employed from employers’ payroll records across the country. When Obama took Office in January 2009, the workforce inherited from George Bush counted 133,886,830. In his first two years, with a Democrat Supermajority in Washington, the workforce shed 8.33 million jobs before holding steady for the first time during the first calendar quarter of 2011. Today, the ETA’s national count through the end of 2014 shows 133,397,155 employed, which remains down 489,675 jobs from the workforce the Administration was handed. In a best case scenario, the BLS Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA) survey estimates suggest 3.2 million jobs added, which would still be less than half the 7.1 million jobs added during Bush’s years in Office.
What makes the half-million jobs shortage especially painful is the high 50-million newcomers infused into the workforce since 2009. With December’s matriculation, our nation’s institutions of higher education have churned out 29 million graduates, at least 15-16 million of our young adults sought entry to the workforce with less education credentials, fully 6.5 million foreign born have been awarded green cards, and more than 3.3 million H1-B visa holders, refugees and asylees combined have swelled the ranks of available workers. Those figures from the Digest of Education Statistics and Yearbook of Immigration Statistics fail to include migrant Mexican Nationals, Central and South Americans who’ve added as many potential newcomers to the workforce as legal immigrants, according to internal ICE documents and estimates from frustrated agents restricted from protecting American sovereignty.
Maybe not healed, but recovering, right? That may be answerable with additional DOL statistics which paint a more detailed, reflective picture of the nation’s workforce and economy.
Cumulative week-by-week counts of distinct new claimants for unemployment after job losses has risen to 129.8 million from January 24, 2009 through February 28, 2015. At its current pace, the record setting blood-letting of jobs for the Obama Administration will top the 133,886,830 American workers who were part of the economy when he took Office within days of Memorial Day. Count on total jobs losers exceeding that staggering number by, or during, the first week of June. No President since the Great Depression has seen anything approaching such numbers, which will have displaced enough workers to have cost every American his or her job in less than six-and-a-half years. Come Memorial Day, the solemn occasion meant to honor America’s fallen warriors might, as appropriately, apply in memoriam of the nation’s struggling labor force.
Slowing the four-and-a-half year purge of gainfully employed Americans from the time Obama was inaugurated, eye-popping changes began with Thomas Perez’ installation as Labor Secretary. On July 27, 2013, ETA counts recorded the Administration’s first full week’s job loss claims under 300,000 after the prior 237 averaged 440,000 lost for Hilda Solis each week. The abrupt change coming in under the watershed 300,000 figure lasted for ten consecutive weeks, which reminded of Bush numbers from August 2004 through October 2007 when 90 of 166 weeks counted fewer than 300,000 jobs lost. While the math suggests a closely related increase in net jobs could be expected as a result of the million-and-a-quarter fewer job losses for the third quarter of 2013, the reality was the ETA showed fewer jobs gained at 568,918. That was down 53,936 from the second quarter, and three of the next four quarters remained under 600,000 jobs gained. Since 700,000 to 750,000 newcomers have been entering the workforce quarterly for the past six years, what’s happened to well over 100 million displaced Americans whose jobs had already been slashed by the third quarter of 2013 is what should be asked. Lest anyone missed the earlier reference to 93,686,000 Americans appearing on NSA figures for potential workers relegated to Not in Labor Force counts, the spike in NiLF remains several times larger than any other BLS metric’s increase for the Obama Administration.
While the continuation of sub 300,000 weeks for job losses in 2014 could no longer be referred to as sudden, the 28 weeks besting that figure fell midway between Bush’s 30 weeks in 2006 and 25 in 2007. The 16 straight weeks from July 19th through November 1, 2014 under 300,000 hadn’t been seen since a stretch of 17 consecutive weeks included a low of 204,302 for the four-day Labor Day work week ended 9/11/99. Perhaps worth noting, Clinton’s labor force in 1999 was 11.5 million less than what it ballooned to by late 2008. Missing from the Labor Department’s encouraging 4 million drop in claims across the past 19 months has been any corresponding net gain on cumulative ETA employment figures. While it’s easy to question the appearance of increasingly suspect, seemingly contradictory DOL counts, an alternate possibility might exist. Without net job gains in the millions, the dramatic drop in weekly claims could only occur with a reduction of hiring also in the millions, which might be explainable as part-and-parcel of the President’s suffocating Obamacare. Hiring for all but Hispanics and the foreign born may legitimately have ground to a virtual standstill.
Recognizing how BLS figures are calculated, then reported from the modest, strategically selected survey pool is important to understanding reality for America’s workforce. Figures released to the public have caused elections to turn on numbers Gallup’s Clifton calls a big lie. Amazingly, in the fall of 2012 at a critical juncture of the Presidential election season, unprecedented drops in the unemployment rate led to criticism from several highly regarded CEOs, along with former BLS Commissioner Keith Hall who called data from the Department he left in January 2012, “deeply flawed.” More examples might illuminate and offer critical perspective to Obama’s present economy.
January’s Not Seasonally Adjusted survey results showed a third consecutive month of job losses reminiscent of early recession numbers while Obama was President elect. 638,000 jobs were lost in January, according to the Household Survey, which followed 476,000 lost in December after a 270,000 shortage in November. August was tough on the workforce, as well, with 618,000 jobs lost on the more accurate NSA counts. Amazingly, all four months were shown with job gains on Seasonally Adjusted estimates massaged and generously calculated by statisticians answerable to Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, heretofore exposed as the President’s magnificent robe weaver. In January, the 638,000 survey respondents’ losses became a 759,000 gain, thanks to 1,397,000 phantom jobs gifted by BLS staff, while December’s loss of 476,000 showed a 111,000 gain for an impressive 587,000 boost. November's 6,000 SA gain was based upon a 276,000 manipulation, while August’s actual 618,000 loss was altered to appear as a 16,000 gain for the BLS’ SA estimate of Americans employed.
Of the 2,002,000 jobs lost across the four fall and winter months, 1,678,000 were white former employees, according to the survey, which amounted to about 84% of the losses overall. While December represented the only month Hispanics lost jobs since August, it caused a 15,000 loss for the four months, which amounted to .75% or .0075 mathematically for their share of the two million jobs lost. Over the past six months, Hispanics maintained their dominance atop the job market with 469,000 jobs gained. Blacks approached even figures since last July with a minimal, statistically insignificant loss of 8,000 jobs from the middle of 2014.
Clearly, the workforce purge and slow economy have impacted our nation’s demographics very differently. Hispanics gained 4.52 million jobs since January 2009 to outdistance all other groups in search of work. Black or African American workforce hopefuls secured 1.6 million more jobs across the same period. Among Perez’ mysterious adjustments, four months from the first two calendar quarters of 2014 showed an incredible 2.11 million increase to white worker job counts on NSA data, with April assigning 685,000 ahead of May’s 493,000. As a result, the nation’s majority demographic no longer appears millions down from job numbers reported in January 2009. Never mind that Perez’ BLS figures reported gains for the majority demographic almost four times the number of jobs added during those months overall, it shrunk a glaring gap to hide the Administration’s disturbingly predictable impact of far-left change to the American workforce. White workers remained down 772,000 jobs 72 months into the Obama Presidency. Including February’s just released figures, BLS counts show a 5,294,000 advantage for Hispanics over whites with Obama in Office, and 4,423,000 edge on jobs awarded to the foreign born. Blacks’ advantage on job gains showed 2,375,000 through Obama’s six years at the helm, in spite of phantom millions added to European-based white workers’ BLS totals to address the discrepancy caused by the left’s prized Affirmative Action and social justice campaigns.
The February BLS Employment Situation Report showed a modest one-month reprieve with statisticians’ SA counts smoothing and correcting anomalies reporting an anemic 96,000 jobs gained. The Household survey suggested an NSA increase of 566,000 workers, or a quarter of the 2 million jobs lost over four months through the end of Obama’s sixth year. White workers appeared to take a chunk out of the three-quarters-of-a-million jobs lost under Obama with a reported 307,000 gain on NSA estimates, but DOL statisticians remained skeptical showing a 43,000 SA loss instead. The big winners were predictable and mirrored results collected across the past 73 months, with Foreign Born workers gaining 188,000 jobs in February. The Foreign Born ranks include H1-B visa holders, asylees and refugees, and recipients of the Administration’s 5.46 million surreptitiously issued non-immigrant foreign worker permits since 2009, awarded to visiting tourists, students, and migrants, according to a State Department Freedom of Information Act response to the Center for Immigration Studies. Together, the Foreign Born and Hispanics’ nearly ten million jobs edge, combined with a low to mid-teen millions of long-term unemployed relegated to February’s 93,686,000 Not in Labor Force category, the economy has been far from kind to the 129.8 million claimants for unemployment after job losses.
When ETA counts are released through Saturday, March 7th, the cumulative count of job loss claimants will vault above 130 million for the first time. The race Americans haven’t heard about from the Labor Department is really about whether the Obama Administration will officially reach positive workforce numbers from the economy it inherited before the purge exceeds 133,886,830 displaced workers. That sizable number represents Americans employed back in January 2009. The seemingly entrenched pattern, at this point calculated using Perez’ remarkably shrunken weekly figures (and corresponding hiring cessation), should see the Administration’s record setting job loss exceed the workforce in place at his inauguration by late spring. Again, the first week of June, within days of Memorial Day is the best estimate for that unprecedented, ignominious economic reality Americans will suffer in the second calendar quarter of 2015.
While it’s been common practice for Obama to reward and promote employees who’ve championed a narrative different from what Americans see as truth -- think Susan Rice, Lois Lerner, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, and more -- Thomas Perez’ value to the Administration appears to have worked against him in this rare instance. He’s convinced many in the media and surprising numbers of Americans that the economy is healed, becoming indispensable to Obama’s Labor Department over 19 months at the helm.
Perez’ name appeared on the short list of candidates to serve as Obama’s next Attorney General, and he was, by all accounts, a logical choice. Perez served in the Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General assigned to oversee the Civil Rights Division. He’d twice previously worked for Eric Holder and was mentored by the outgoing AG to be a powerful advocate for the Administration’s social justice campaign. While one of the principal requirements was all but assured, Eric Holder’s activities must remain untouchable and hands-off for his successor, Perez’ role as the deceptive weaver of Emperor Obama’s magnificent robe of a healed economy meant he was critically needed in that role. Thanks to Loretta Lynch’s relationship and familiarity as a like-minded former classmate of Michelle Obama’s who’s committed to social justice and fundamental change, an alternative existed without taking one of the Presidents’ effective Cabinet level lieutenants away from a position he’d have traded in a heartbeat for Attorney General.
Imagine that. An Obama appointee who’s too accomplished at creating an alternate reality to what scores of millions have experienced or watched friends and family suffer to promote to another key, even more important role. Will wonders never cease?
During Obama’s State of the Union address, he referenced a thriving, healed economy, claiming 11 million jobs added over the past five years showed enviable growth and an impressive turn from the 8.33 million jobs lost in 2009 and 2010. Of course, he left the abysmal losses from his first two years out, which included a net workforce loss of 4,568,262 in 2010 alone from that incredible, audacious claim. Misleading doesn’t begin to describe the reality of Americans’ pervasive workforce malaise over the past six years, which has turned into 93,686,000 former, and mostly still potential, contributors relegated to Not in Labor Force counts on the Department of Labor’s BLS Employment Situation Report.
A month ago, Gallup CEO Jim Clifton answered the President’s SOTU claim with a rare challenge from a recognizable, respected voice with an article titled “The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment”. His observation was followed by a series of interviews and seemingly incredulous media interrogation. Like the weavers’ claims that anyone who couldn’t see the Emperor’s robe was stupid and unfit for their position, the common theme from the mainstream media was Clifton was wrong, deluded, and according to liberals’ beloved PC first-line-of-defense, a hater. Absent from the series of interviews was any actual analysis of the published workforce numbers, which would have left Clifton looking like the boy who started the murmurs about a pretend invisible robe no one saw.
At the end of January, the Employment & Training Administration (ETA) released its final year-end quarterly count of the nation’s employed on r539cy, and Friday, February 6th saw Obama’s 72nd monthly BLS Employment Situation Report close a sixth year of workforce data while he’s served as Chief Executive. Since the President opened his State of the Union Address by announcing his Administration has overseen an economy that’s grown the fastest and added the most jobs since 1999, and boasted of creating more than 11 million jobs over five years, real substantive data seems warranted for a narrative the electorate was disbelieving of in November. Obama held little back on January 20th, proclaiming the economy healed and his Administration’s historic, recession turning results, Reaganesque.
Before looking at whose version of the American economy the breadth of statistics support, it might be appropriate to include a brief explanation of the DOL’s data gathering process and roles for its BLS and ETA divisions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) gathers extensive results from two separate surveys monthly: The Household Survey and The Establishment Survey. All Table A, Household Data is compiled from responses from about 50,000 strategically selected households across a range of pre-determined, reportedly representative households nationwide. Their survey data is included for four consecutive months before being rolled off for the next pre-selected households, then eight months later the surveyed families return for another round. The number of households surveyed monthly represents a ratio of about 3 out of 20,000 nationwide. Actual survey results from the selected households are shown in Not Seasonally Adjusted data, while BLS statisticians apply judgment and are allowed latitude for determining Seasonally Adjusted estimates to smooth suspected anomalies and data significantly different from what’s anticipated.
The ETA’s data gathering is more extensive, and by most accounts, comprehensive, coming from real, supportable figures reported by all 50 States’ Employment Offices nationwide. Claims for unemployment after job losses are counted, and employers’ payroll records, including contributions toward unemployment insurance for the nation’s employed, produce actual numbers superior to, and more representative than, the limited survey estimates released by the BLS. ETA counts were easy to track and follow and seemed straightforward, at least through July 23, 2013 when Thomas Perez replaced Hilda Solis as Obama’s appointed Labor Secretary.
While BLS figures get media attention and widespread release to the American public, the ETA figures seem worthy of presenting here ahead of looking at BLS figures. The latter will address more than just the two or three figures chosen by the President’s appointed Labor Secretary to selectively represent fully 550 distinct Household Data, Table A measures of demographics ranging from age, race, ethnicity, citizenship and education levels, among others believed to give a snapshot of the nation’s workforce.
Since the pace of jobs added and claims of 11 million new jobs filled over the past five years was central to Obama’s boast of a healed economy, let’s look at the ETA count of the nation’s employed from employers’ payroll records across the country. When Obama took Office in January 2009, the workforce inherited from George Bush counted 133,886,830. In his first two years, with a Democrat Supermajority in Washington, the workforce shed 8.33 million jobs before holding steady for the first time during the first calendar quarter of 2011. Today, the ETA’s national count through the end of 2014 shows 133,397,155 employed, which remains down 489,675 jobs from the workforce the Administration was handed. In a best case scenario, the BLS Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA) survey estimates suggest 3.2 million jobs added, which would still be less than half the 7.1 million jobs added during Bush’s years in Office.
What makes the half-million jobs shortage especially painful is the high 50-million newcomers infused into the workforce since 2009. With December’s matriculation, our nation’s institutions of higher education have churned out 29 million graduates, at least 15-16 million of our young adults sought entry to the workforce with less education credentials, fully 6.5 million foreign born have been awarded green cards, and more than 3.3 million H1-B visa holders, refugees and asylees combined have swelled the ranks of available workers. Those figures from the Digest of Education Statistics and Yearbook of Immigration Statistics fail to include migrant Mexican Nationals, Central and South Americans who’ve added as many potential newcomers to the workforce as legal immigrants, according to internal ICE documents and estimates from frustrated agents restricted from protecting American sovereignty.
Maybe not healed, but recovering, right? That may be answerable with additional DOL statistics which paint a more detailed, reflective picture of the nation’s workforce and economy.
Cumulative week-by-week counts of distinct new claimants for unemployment after job losses has risen to 129.8 million from January 24, 2009 through February 28, 2015. At its current pace, the record setting blood-letting of jobs for the Obama Administration will top the 133,886,830 American workers who were part of the economy when he took Office within days of Memorial Day. Count on total jobs losers exceeding that staggering number by, or during, the first week of June. No President since the Great Depression has seen anything approaching such numbers, which will have displaced enough workers to have cost every American his or her job in less than six-and-a-half years. Come Memorial Day, the solemn occasion meant to honor America’s fallen warriors might, as appropriately, apply in memoriam of the nation’s struggling labor force.
Slowing the four-and-a-half year purge of gainfully employed Americans from the time Obama was inaugurated, eye-popping changes began with Thomas Perez’ installation as Labor Secretary. On July 27, 2013, ETA counts recorded the Administration’s first full week’s job loss claims under 300,000 after the prior 237 averaged 440,000 lost for Hilda Solis each week. The abrupt change coming in under the watershed 300,000 figure lasted for ten consecutive weeks, which reminded of Bush numbers from August 2004 through October 2007 when 90 of 166 weeks counted fewer than 300,000 jobs lost. While the math suggests a closely related increase in net jobs could be expected as a result of the million-and-a-quarter fewer job losses for the third quarter of 2013, the reality was the ETA showed fewer jobs gained at 568,918. That was down 53,936 from the second quarter, and three of the next four quarters remained under 600,000 jobs gained. Since 700,000 to 750,000 newcomers have been entering the workforce quarterly for the past six years, what’s happened to well over 100 million displaced Americans whose jobs had already been slashed by the third quarter of 2013 is what should be asked. Lest anyone missed the earlier reference to 93,686,000 Americans appearing on NSA figures for potential workers relegated to Not in Labor Force counts, the spike in NiLF remains several times larger than any other BLS metric’s increase for the Obama Administration.
While the continuation of sub 300,000 weeks for job losses in 2014 could no longer be referred to as sudden, the 28 weeks besting that figure fell midway between Bush’s 30 weeks in 2006 and 25 in 2007. The 16 straight weeks from July 19th through November 1, 2014 under 300,000 hadn’t been seen since a stretch of 17 consecutive weeks included a low of 204,302 for the four-day Labor Day work week ended 9/11/99. Perhaps worth noting, Clinton’s labor force in 1999 was 11.5 million less than what it ballooned to by late 2008. Missing from the Labor Department’s encouraging 4 million drop in claims across the past 19 months has been any corresponding net gain on cumulative ETA employment figures. While it’s easy to question the appearance of increasingly suspect, seemingly contradictory DOL counts, an alternate possibility might exist. Without net job gains in the millions, the dramatic drop in weekly claims could only occur with a reduction of hiring also in the millions, which might be explainable as part-and-parcel of the President’s suffocating Obamacare. Hiring for all but Hispanics and the foreign born may legitimately have ground to a virtual standstill.
Recognizing how BLS figures are calculated, then reported from the modest, strategically selected survey pool is important to understanding reality for America’s workforce. Figures released to the public have caused elections to turn on numbers Gallup’s Clifton calls a big lie. Amazingly, in the fall of 2012 at a critical juncture of the Presidential election season, unprecedented drops in the unemployment rate led to criticism from several highly regarded CEOs, along with former BLS Commissioner Keith Hall who called data from the Department he left in January 2012, “deeply flawed.” More examples might illuminate and offer critical perspective to Obama’s present economy.
January’s Not Seasonally Adjusted survey results showed a third consecutive month of job losses reminiscent of early recession numbers while Obama was President elect. 638,000 jobs were lost in January, according to the Household Survey, which followed 476,000 lost in December after a 270,000 shortage in November. August was tough on the workforce, as well, with 618,000 jobs lost on the more accurate NSA counts. Amazingly, all four months were shown with job gains on Seasonally Adjusted estimates massaged and generously calculated by statisticians answerable to Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, heretofore exposed as the President’s magnificent robe weaver. In January, the 638,000 survey respondents’ losses became a 759,000 gain, thanks to 1,397,000 phantom jobs gifted by BLS staff, while December’s loss of 476,000 showed a 111,000 gain for an impressive 587,000 boost. November's 6,000 SA gain was based upon a 276,000 manipulation, while August’s actual 618,000 loss was altered to appear as a 16,000 gain for the BLS’ SA estimate of Americans employed.
Of the 2,002,000 jobs lost across the four fall and winter months, 1,678,000 were white former employees, according to the survey, which amounted to about 84% of the losses overall. While December represented the only month Hispanics lost jobs since August, it caused a 15,000 loss for the four months, which amounted to .75% or .0075 mathematically for their share of the two million jobs lost. Over the past six months, Hispanics maintained their dominance atop the job market with 469,000 jobs gained. Blacks approached even figures since last July with a minimal, statistically insignificant loss of 8,000 jobs from the middle of 2014.
Clearly, the workforce purge and slow economy have impacted our nation’s demographics very differently. Hispanics gained 4.52 million jobs since January 2009 to outdistance all other groups in search of work. Black or African American workforce hopefuls secured 1.6 million more jobs across the same period. Among Perez’ mysterious adjustments, four months from the first two calendar quarters of 2014 showed an incredible 2.11 million increase to white worker job counts on NSA data, with April assigning 685,000 ahead of May’s 493,000. As a result, the nation’s majority demographic no longer appears millions down from job numbers reported in January 2009. Never mind that Perez’ BLS figures reported gains for the majority demographic almost four times the number of jobs added during those months overall, it shrunk a glaring gap to hide the Administration’s disturbingly predictable impact of far-left change to the American workforce. White workers remained down 772,000 jobs 72 months into the Obama Presidency. Including February’s just released figures, BLS counts show a 5,294,000 advantage for Hispanics over whites with Obama in Office, and 4,423,000 edge on jobs awarded to the foreign born. Blacks’ advantage on job gains showed 2,375,000 through Obama’s six years at the helm, in spite of phantom millions added to European-based white workers’ BLS totals to address the discrepancy caused by the left’s prized Affirmative Action and social justice campaigns.
The February BLS Employment Situation Report showed a modest one-month reprieve with statisticians’ SA counts smoothing and correcting anomalies reporting an anemic 96,000 jobs gained. The Household survey suggested an NSA increase of 566,000 workers, or a quarter of the 2 million jobs lost over four months through the end of Obama’s sixth year. White workers appeared to take a chunk out of the three-quarters-of-a-million jobs lost under Obama with a reported 307,000 gain on NSA estimates, but DOL statisticians remained skeptical showing a 43,000 SA loss instead. The big winners were predictable and mirrored results collected across the past 73 months, with Foreign Born workers gaining 188,000 jobs in February. The Foreign Born ranks include H1-B visa holders, asylees and refugees, and recipients of the Administration’s 5.46 million surreptitiously issued non-immigrant foreign worker permits since 2009, awarded to visiting tourists, students, and migrants, according to a State Department Freedom of Information Act response to the Center for Immigration Studies. Together, the Foreign Born and Hispanics’ nearly ten million jobs edge, combined with a low to mid-teen millions of long-term unemployed relegated to February’s 93,686,000 Not in Labor Force category, the economy has been far from kind to the 129.8 million claimants for unemployment after job losses.
When ETA counts are released through Saturday, March 7th, the cumulative count of job loss claimants will vault above 130 million for the first time. The race Americans haven’t heard about from the Labor Department is really about whether the Obama Administration will officially reach positive workforce numbers from the economy it inherited before the purge exceeds 133,886,830 displaced workers. That sizable number represents Americans employed back in January 2009. The seemingly entrenched pattern, at this point calculated using Perez’ remarkably shrunken weekly figures (and corresponding hiring cessation), should see the Administration’s record setting job loss exceed the workforce in place at his inauguration by late spring. Again, the first week of June, within days of Memorial Day is the best estimate for that unprecedented, ignominious economic reality Americans will suffer in the second calendar quarter of 2015.
While it’s been common practice for Obama to reward and promote employees who’ve championed a narrative different from what Americans see as truth -- think Susan Rice, Lois Lerner, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, and more -- Thomas Perez’ value to the Administration appears to have worked against him in this rare instance. He’s convinced many in the media and surprising numbers of Americans that the economy is healed, becoming indispensable to Obama’s Labor Department over 19 months at the helm.
Perez’ name appeared on the short list of candidates to serve as Obama’s next Attorney General, and he was, by all accounts, a logical choice. Perez served in the Justice Department as Assistant Attorney General assigned to oversee the Civil Rights Division. He’d twice previously worked for Eric Holder and was mentored by the outgoing AG to be a powerful advocate for the Administration’s social justice campaign. While one of the principal requirements was all but assured, Eric Holder’s activities must remain untouchable and hands-off for his successor, Perez’ role as the deceptive weaver of Emperor Obama’s magnificent robe of a healed economy meant he was critically needed in that role. Thanks to Loretta Lynch’s relationship and familiarity as a like-minded former classmate of Michelle Obama’s who’s committed to social justice and fundamental change, an alternative existed without taking one of the Presidents’ effective Cabinet level lieutenants away from a position he’d have traded in a heartbeat for Attorney General.
Imagine that. An Obama appointee who’s too accomplished at creating an alternate reality to what scores of millions have experienced or watched friends and family suffer to promote to another key, even more important role. Will wonders never cease?
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