On the anniversary of
9-11, not only are Americans and most of Western civilization on alert,
horrified by the brutality and disregard for life an unchecked,
growing ISIL has shown, tens of millions of our own citizens have suffered six
years of an economy reminiscent of the World Trade Center’s disintegration on
that fateful day 13 years ago. That attack shaped a fledgling Presidency forced
to respond just seven-and-a-half months into the last much maligned Republican
Administration. Of course, it did respond with decisive plans boosted by international
support. On the home front in 2014, Americans are increasingly fearful of
terrorist activities, even while life-changing, unprecedented challenges caused
by job losses and a stalled economy remain atop voters’ concerns on virtually
every poll. In 2009 through 2010, we were shown what President Obama’s fallback
“no plan” strategy looks like as our workforce suffered 8.3 million jobs lost across
eight calendar quarters, while the Democrat supermajority in Washington D.C.
took an elitist Marie Antoinette approach.
The Department of Labor releases an analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey on the first Friday of each month, which for August was, again, far from inspiring. As usual, the Obama Administration focused on a single disappointing statistic, which was among the few not downright ugly, claiming the CPS results suggested a gain of 134,000 jobs in the private sector. Similarly, non-farm employment was considered to have risen by 142,000, according to survey responses from about 50,000 strategically selected households supposedly representative of the nation’s employment picture for more than 240 million. If that sounds suspect to real, high-level statisticians and researchers, it may be worth noting that the strategically selected homes remain part of the survey for four consecutive months before being replaced, only to return eight months later.
The end of summer report includes a transition back to school for tens of millions of families, including teens who’d counted several fold the number of jobs added to the nation’s workforce since May, creating a somewhat misleading appearance of job growth for a sputtering economy. The August Employment Situation Report showed an actual loss of 618,000 jobs, according to the DOL’s most accurate Not Seasonally Adjusted data from the households representing about 3 out of 20,000 nationwide.
Comparisons for the sluggish, fitful job growth seem surprisingly reminiscent of 2008, when the media rushed to report banking data of concern and a slowed market on Wall Street as a dire recession impacting millions who were reportedly losing jobs. For political reasons benefitting the Party media align with at considerable cost to mainstream, middle-class Americans, month after month of reported job losses were overstated, fueled by BLS statisticians’ seasonally adjusted employment counts which differed from NSA survey results by margins reaching half-a-million to more than a million on monthly releases late in the Bush Presidency.
Before delving further into the August data, let’s take a look at a few direct comparisons to the 2008 period the liberal media and Democrat candidates focused on for political advantage, hammering away at a recession that was far more bark than bite at summer’s end. The current painful loss of 618,000 jobs for August came after modest gains appeared on the heels of a 73,000 loss in March, the latter figure coming from BLS statisticians’ favored SA counts. Over the past five months, March’s NSA count of 145,742,000 employed on the CPS increased to 146,368,000 showing growth of just 626,000 jobs at a rate of 125,000 per month. In 2008, the March through August period during Bush’s final year showed growth of 750,000 on CPS not seasonally adjusted data averaging 150,000 per month. For those familiar with the DOL’s Employment & Training Administration comprehensive nationwide counts, the first three calendar quarters of 2008 showed 891,434 jobs added, according to real, verifiable counts from each of the 50 states.
Of course, the narrative at this point is the modest job growth barely half the 225,000 to 250,000 needed monthly to employ an influx of increasingly college educated workforce hopefuls is seen as recovery. Perhaps compared to the 8.33 million jobs lost during Obama’s dismal 2009-2010, then a flat first quarter of 2011 before modest growth returned, 125,000 jobs per month is a legitimate reason to celebrate for the math challenged on the left. Most assuredly, it’s not for those who recognize what’s going on based upon workforce statistics quantifying Americans’ foremost concern across another critical election season.
Probably the most eye-popping number for August 2014 comes from cumulative ETA data, which shows the Obama Administration’s moribund workforce counts topping 122 million Americans having filed distinct claims for unemployment after job losses. That total exceeds job losses under any prior President heading into fall, just over halfway into Obama’s sixth year in Office. In fact, the total number of jobs handed off by President Bush, according to the ETA nationwide counts, was 133,886,830. The latest cumulative job loss total shows a disturbing figure representing 91 percent of the workforce in place during January 2009.
Amazingly, during Obama’s first term, a direct comparison of weekly and monthly counts showed the elevated Junior Senator from Illinois implement his original “no plan” strategy for a torched economy which lost 107,600 more jobs on average weekly and 495,000 more monthly than were shed during corresponding periods of Bush’s second term. Now that Obama’s best numbers appear to have reached Bush’s worst employment figures ahead of the 2008 election on CPS Not Seasonally Adjusted counts, albeit far behind the DOL’s cumulative ETA counts, some in the media credit the President with high praise and accolades, like independent contributor Adam Hartung whose opinion appeared in Forbes the day August data was released. Like many on the left, he focused solely on the private sector jobs number and ignored the 618,000 overall loss of jobs four months after another more modest loss came up about 300,000 short of the number needed to employ new entrants to the workforce each month. Hartung boldly credited Obama with being the best modern-day President for the economy without bothering to note that the ETA nationwide count of employed Americans shows 1.75 million fewer jobs 68 months into his Presidency than at the outset of 2009 with the Administration’s latest August ETA figure reaching 132,140,947.
For those interested, that 1.75 million loss, which has fallen from the unprecedented 5.27 million slashed during Obama’s first term, has come at a time more than 50 million ready, often highly trained, well-educated age-appropriate workforce hopefuls sought employment. The Digest of Education Statistics showed another 4.75 million college graduates (or similar professional award) for the 2013-2014 school year, which has reached 27.5 million during Obama’s sixth year in Office. Upwards of 14 million American youth graduated or abandoned high school altogether without higher education training during that period, and the State Department recorded more than 6.5 million green cards awarded to immigrants granted legal residency during that time. About 3 million more have come from H-1B visa hires promised employment to gain entry for a three-year period, refugees and asylees, combined. While there are a range of smaller categories, internal ICE documents support more illegal migrants having entered unimpeded across our Southern border than entered legally under Obama’s executive orders tying CBP agents’ hands. With new workforce entrants having skyrocketed to a mid, and possibly upper, 50 million range, the overall loss of 1.75 million jobs under Obama’s shrunken economy is at the heart of why the middle class has all but vanished with little hope of return. Six years into “hope and change” Americans have been forced to sacrifice the former for an unprecedented Chicago-mob-style cronyism on the latter.
As most who follow these statistics are aware, evidence of ugly results from the CPS, such as the 618,000 jobs lost in August, appear in other metrics showing employment woes and life-changing loss 122 million Americans have struggled with since 2009. Among other changes the media ignored for August were 268,000 unemployed banished to the ranks of Not in Labor Force on SA figures, while the NSA count showed a shocking 1,343,000 increase. At 92,269,000, the 11.7 million spike under Obama represents by far and away the largest increase of any employment measure across his 5 ½ years as President. Using the birth-death cycle BLS statisticians include in workforce estimates, especially applied to elderly, retired Americans who are no longer with us, the actual movement of long-term unemployed to NiLF figures since 2009 is closer to 20 million under Obama.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the trauma of job loss and interminable lengths separated from employment have impacted demographics in the CPS at dramatically different rates and numbers. In August alone, white Americans were reported as having lost 414,000 jobs according to the most accurate NSA results. Like mentioned above, statisticians’ latitude for adjusting results they consider anomalous or too different from expected turned into a tidy, less worrisome figure showing just 3,000 jobs lost on seasonally adjusted (SA) figures. Incredibly, white long-term unemployed were relegated to Not in Labor Force counts to the tune of 925,000 for the month of August alone. Since the start of 2009, white Americans who make up 72.3% of the population on recent Census figures have lost 762,000 jobs from Obama’s inauguration onward. And while whites are no longer admitted to colleges and universities at rates commensurate with their numbers in the populace, the 62 to 64% enrolled for each of the past six years graduate at higher rates than their minority counterparts with better than a 70% share of the 27.5 million degrees and credentials awarded during Obama’s tenure.
Hispanics in August were counted as having gained another 178,000 jobs, while every other demographic surveyed by the CPS lost jobs. In July, Hispanics gained 124,000 jobs on NSA counts, after May and June recorded workforce growth of 229,000, then a head-scratching, atypical loss of 60,000, respectively. The overall change for Hispanic workers since January 2009 counts were released showed growth of 4,109,000 from 19,463,000 to 23,567,000 on BLS figures. For the record, Hispanics’ advantage in job growth over whites was 4,871,000, in spite of making up about a fifth of the majority’s overall numbers in the population. Given the disparity in numbers and percentage of the unemployed, as well as the populace as a whole, the Obama Administration’s favor shown the left’s most prized demographic now has resulted in an 18-20 times greater likelihood for an out of work Hispanic to get hired than a more educated, often more experienced applicant from the majority ranks. Hispanic males’ advantage is even greater, as evidenced by the 81.1% workforce participation rate, which is 7 percent above our best educated who hold bachelor’s degrees and higher. The best educated category includes graduates with masters, doctoral and advanced professional degrees.
Keeping an entrenched pattern consistent while displacing millions of native born workers, the second highest workforce participation rate belongs to foreign born males at 78.8%. The foreign born gained 557,000 jobs in August with 386,000 going to foreign born males, a category which counts H-1B visa recipients and a tough to differentiate percentage of Mexican Nationals who appear in both of the nation’s fastest growing workforce categories. Native born workers lost 1,175,000 jobs in August, in spite of making up an overwhelming majority of the 4.75 million college graduates this year and 27.5 million since Obama took Office in 2009.
The President’s own self-identified demographic has outdistanced white workforce hopefuls but shown uneven job numbers since spring. In August, Black or African Americans of working age were counted as losing 160,000 jobs, while July added 69,000 after solid growth of 220,000 in May. April showed 119,000 on SA figures. Since January 2009 data was released, blacks have gained 1,379,000 jobs, from 15,274,000 to 16,653,000, or 2,141,000 more than the nation’s predominant Euro-based demographic. With whites making up about 5.6 times the number of blacks in the populace but closer to 4 times the number of unemployed (remember, whites have been relegated to NiLF counts at rates about ten times those of minorities in the BLS statistics), the reality for Obama’s fellow African descendants is that they’ve benefitted from a 9-10 times greater likelihood of securing employment than an unemployed workforce hopeful counted amongst the majority.
Hope and change appears to be alive and well for some, but the ugly reality and deleterious effect of selecting who benefits and who’s favored based first and foremost on skin color is among the most damaging changes Americans have had to swallow under the Community Organizer turned President. Whether the majority ever recovers, and for however long they remain outcast as a collective group, significant harm has been done by the left’s much beloved Affirmative Action. Some may remember a slogan the NAACP used for years, which tugged at heartstrings claiming “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” It’s become increasingly apparent what was meant might more accurately have included the qualifier, “unless it’s a white, native born American.”
Such is the state of Obama’s sluggish, selective workforce shift Americans didn’t understand was part of the President’s promised change. A range of charts and supportive data are available at the RockyMountainPerspective.com site, as are links to virtually all of the referenced statistics from the Department of Labor. I’ll even encourage anyone interested in reading what a seemingly educated sycophant or stealth Obama Team journalist has to say, if you have interest in an opposing view. I’m confident few will find Adam Hartung’s words credible, when he shills for Obama being the best President for economic growth and prosperity in modern times. His comparisons take on Reagan’s impressive growth and dramatic reductions in unemployment, and one gets the impression he believes Americans should feel all warm and fuzzy about an economy that’s supposedly humming along impressively amidst the throes of dramatic recovery.
Typical of the liberal mindset, it’s hard to believe Hartung has ever read or studied an Employment Situation Report, nor is he likely to recognize the real ETA nationwide counts showing 122.5 million distinct claims for unemployment following job losses through Saturday, September 6th. I’d bet the farm he hasn’t read or parsed the 800-plus page Digest of Education Statistics some of my data is drawn from, and Hartung and his cohorts on the left most assuredly haven’t taken data presented in the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics seriously. What most Americans have recognized in part, but somehow struggle to fully acknowledge, is supported in glorious detail, if only one is willing to delve into the extensive, available data with an open mind and willingness to learn. Of course, we know who that excludes, and amazingly, they still count almost 40% of the populace, if surveys can be believed.
The Department of Labor releases an analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ household survey on the first Friday of each month, which for August was, again, far from inspiring. As usual, the Obama Administration focused on a single disappointing statistic, which was among the few not downright ugly, claiming the CPS results suggested a gain of 134,000 jobs in the private sector. Similarly, non-farm employment was considered to have risen by 142,000, according to survey responses from about 50,000 strategically selected households supposedly representative of the nation’s employment picture for more than 240 million. If that sounds suspect to real, high-level statisticians and researchers, it may be worth noting that the strategically selected homes remain part of the survey for four consecutive months before being replaced, only to return eight months later.
The end of summer report includes a transition back to school for tens of millions of families, including teens who’d counted several fold the number of jobs added to the nation’s workforce since May, creating a somewhat misleading appearance of job growth for a sputtering economy. The August Employment Situation Report showed an actual loss of 618,000 jobs, according to the DOL’s most accurate Not Seasonally Adjusted data from the households representing about 3 out of 20,000 nationwide.
Comparisons for the sluggish, fitful job growth seem surprisingly reminiscent of 2008, when the media rushed to report banking data of concern and a slowed market on Wall Street as a dire recession impacting millions who were reportedly losing jobs. For political reasons benefitting the Party media align with at considerable cost to mainstream, middle-class Americans, month after month of reported job losses were overstated, fueled by BLS statisticians’ seasonally adjusted employment counts which differed from NSA survey results by margins reaching half-a-million to more than a million on monthly releases late in the Bush Presidency.
Before delving further into the August data, let’s take a look at a few direct comparisons to the 2008 period the liberal media and Democrat candidates focused on for political advantage, hammering away at a recession that was far more bark than bite at summer’s end. The current painful loss of 618,000 jobs for August came after modest gains appeared on the heels of a 73,000 loss in March, the latter figure coming from BLS statisticians’ favored SA counts. Over the past five months, March’s NSA count of 145,742,000 employed on the CPS increased to 146,368,000 showing growth of just 626,000 jobs at a rate of 125,000 per month. In 2008, the March through August period during Bush’s final year showed growth of 750,000 on CPS not seasonally adjusted data averaging 150,000 per month. For those familiar with the DOL’s Employment & Training Administration comprehensive nationwide counts, the first three calendar quarters of 2008 showed 891,434 jobs added, according to real, verifiable counts from each of the 50 states.
Of course, the narrative at this point is the modest job growth barely half the 225,000 to 250,000 needed monthly to employ an influx of increasingly college educated workforce hopefuls is seen as recovery. Perhaps compared to the 8.33 million jobs lost during Obama’s dismal 2009-2010, then a flat first quarter of 2011 before modest growth returned, 125,000 jobs per month is a legitimate reason to celebrate for the math challenged on the left. Most assuredly, it’s not for those who recognize what’s going on based upon workforce statistics quantifying Americans’ foremost concern across another critical election season.
Probably the most eye-popping number for August 2014 comes from cumulative ETA data, which shows the Obama Administration’s moribund workforce counts topping 122 million Americans having filed distinct claims for unemployment after job losses. That total exceeds job losses under any prior President heading into fall, just over halfway into Obama’s sixth year in Office. In fact, the total number of jobs handed off by President Bush, according to the ETA nationwide counts, was 133,886,830. The latest cumulative job loss total shows a disturbing figure representing 91 percent of the workforce in place during January 2009.
Amazingly, during Obama’s first term, a direct comparison of weekly and monthly counts showed the elevated Junior Senator from Illinois implement his original “no plan” strategy for a torched economy which lost 107,600 more jobs on average weekly and 495,000 more monthly than were shed during corresponding periods of Bush’s second term. Now that Obama’s best numbers appear to have reached Bush’s worst employment figures ahead of the 2008 election on CPS Not Seasonally Adjusted counts, albeit far behind the DOL’s cumulative ETA counts, some in the media credit the President with high praise and accolades, like independent contributor Adam Hartung whose opinion appeared in Forbes the day August data was released. Like many on the left, he focused solely on the private sector jobs number and ignored the 618,000 overall loss of jobs four months after another more modest loss came up about 300,000 short of the number needed to employ new entrants to the workforce each month. Hartung boldly credited Obama with being the best modern-day President for the economy without bothering to note that the ETA nationwide count of employed Americans shows 1.75 million fewer jobs 68 months into his Presidency than at the outset of 2009 with the Administration’s latest August ETA figure reaching 132,140,947.
For those interested, that 1.75 million loss, which has fallen from the unprecedented 5.27 million slashed during Obama’s first term, has come at a time more than 50 million ready, often highly trained, well-educated age-appropriate workforce hopefuls sought employment. The Digest of Education Statistics showed another 4.75 million college graduates (or similar professional award) for the 2013-2014 school year, which has reached 27.5 million during Obama’s sixth year in Office. Upwards of 14 million American youth graduated or abandoned high school altogether without higher education training during that period, and the State Department recorded more than 6.5 million green cards awarded to immigrants granted legal residency during that time. About 3 million more have come from H-1B visa hires promised employment to gain entry for a three-year period, refugees and asylees, combined. While there are a range of smaller categories, internal ICE documents support more illegal migrants having entered unimpeded across our Southern border than entered legally under Obama’s executive orders tying CBP agents’ hands. With new workforce entrants having skyrocketed to a mid, and possibly upper, 50 million range, the overall loss of 1.75 million jobs under Obama’s shrunken economy is at the heart of why the middle class has all but vanished with little hope of return. Six years into “hope and change” Americans have been forced to sacrifice the former for an unprecedented Chicago-mob-style cronyism on the latter.
As most who follow these statistics are aware, evidence of ugly results from the CPS, such as the 618,000 jobs lost in August, appear in other metrics showing employment woes and life-changing loss 122 million Americans have struggled with since 2009. Among other changes the media ignored for August were 268,000 unemployed banished to the ranks of Not in Labor Force on SA figures, while the NSA count showed a shocking 1,343,000 increase. At 92,269,000, the 11.7 million spike under Obama represents by far and away the largest increase of any employment measure across his 5 ½ years as President. Using the birth-death cycle BLS statisticians include in workforce estimates, especially applied to elderly, retired Americans who are no longer with us, the actual movement of long-term unemployed to NiLF figures since 2009 is closer to 20 million under Obama.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the trauma of job loss and interminable lengths separated from employment have impacted demographics in the CPS at dramatically different rates and numbers. In August alone, white Americans were reported as having lost 414,000 jobs according to the most accurate NSA results. Like mentioned above, statisticians’ latitude for adjusting results they consider anomalous or too different from expected turned into a tidy, less worrisome figure showing just 3,000 jobs lost on seasonally adjusted (SA) figures. Incredibly, white long-term unemployed were relegated to Not in Labor Force counts to the tune of 925,000 for the month of August alone. Since the start of 2009, white Americans who make up 72.3% of the population on recent Census figures have lost 762,000 jobs from Obama’s inauguration onward. And while whites are no longer admitted to colleges and universities at rates commensurate with their numbers in the populace, the 62 to 64% enrolled for each of the past six years graduate at higher rates than their minority counterparts with better than a 70% share of the 27.5 million degrees and credentials awarded during Obama’s tenure.
Hispanics in August were counted as having gained another 178,000 jobs, while every other demographic surveyed by the CPS lost jobs. In July, Hispanics gained 124,000 jobs on NSA counts, after May and June recorded workforce growth of 229,000, then a head-scratching, atypical loss of 60,000, respectively. The overall change for Hispanic workers since January 2009 counts were released showed growth of 4,109,000 from 19,463,000 to 23,567,000 on BLS figures. For the record, Hispanics’ advantage in job growth over whites was 4,871,000, in spite of making up about a fifth of the majority’s overall numbers in the population. Given the disparity in numbers and percentage of the unemployed, as well as the populace as a whole, the Obama Administration’s favor shown the left’s most prized demographic now has resulted in an 18-20 times greater likelihood for an out of work Hispanic to get hired than a more educated, often more experienced applicant from the majority ranks. Hispanic males’ advantage is even greater, as evidenced by the 81.1% workforce participation rate, which is 7 percent above our best educated who hold bachelor’s degrees and higher. The best educated category includes graduates with masters, doctoral and advanced professional degrees.
Keeping an entrenched pattern consistent while displacing millions of native born workers, the second highest workforce participation rate belongs to foreign born males at 78.8%. The foreign born gained 557,000 jobs in August with 386,000 going to foreign born males, a category which counts H-1B visa recipients and a tough to differentiate percentage of Mexican Nationals who appear in both of the nation’s fastest growing workforce categories. Native born workers lost 1,175,000 jobs in August, in spite of making up an overwhelming majority of the 4.75 million college graduates this year and 27.5 million since Obama took Office in 2009.
The President’s own self-identified demographic has outdistanced white workforce hopefuls but shown uneven job numbers since spring. In August, Black or African Americans of working age were counted as losing 160,000 jobs, while July added 69,000 after solid growth of 220,000 in May. April showed 119,000 on SA figures. Since January 2009 data was released, blacks have gained 1,379,000 jobs, from 15,274,000 to 16,653,000, or 2,141,000 more than the nation’s predominant Euro-based demographic. With whites making up about 5.6 times the number of blacks in the populace but closer to 4 times the number of unemployed (remember, whites have been relegated to NiLF counts at rates about ten times those of minorities in the BLS statistics), the reality for Obama’s fellow African descendants is that they’ve benefitted from a 9-10 times greater likelihood of securing employment than an unemployed workforce hopeful counted amongst the majority.
Hope and change appears to be alive and well for some, but the ugly reality and deleterious effect of selecting who benefits and who’s favored based first and foremost on skin color is among the most damaging changes Americans have had to swallow under the Community Organizer turned President. Whether the majority ever recovers, and for however long they remain outcast as a collective group, significant harm has been done by the left’s much beloved Affirmative Action. Some may remember a slogan the NAACP used for years, which tugged at heartstrings claiming “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” It’s become increasingly apparent what was meant might more accurately have included the qualifier, “unless it’s a white, native born American.”
Such is the state of Obama’s sluggish, selective workforce shift Americans didn’t understand was part of the President’s promised change. A range of charts and supportive data are available at the RockyMountainPerspective.com site, as are links to virtually all of the referenced statistics from the Department of Labor. I’ll even encourage anyone interested in reading what a seemingly educated sycophant or stealth Obama Team journalist has to say, if you have interest in an opposing view. I’m confident few will find Adam Hartung’s words credible, when he shills for Obama being the best President for economic growth and prosperity in modern times. His comparisons take on Reagan’s impressive growth and dramatic reductions in unemployment, and one gets the impression he believes Americans should feel all warm and fuzzy about an economy that’s supposedly humming along impressively amidst the throes of dramatic recovery.
Typical of the liberal mindset, it’s hard to believe Hartung has ever read or studied an Employment Situation Report, nor is he likely to recognize the real ETA nationwide counts showing 122.5 million distinct claims for unemployment following job losses through Saturday, September 6th. I’d bet the farm he hasn’t read or parsed the 800-plus page Digest of Education Statistics some of my data is drawn from, and Hartung and his cohorts on the left most assuredly haven’t taken data presented in the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics seriously. What most Americans have recognized in part, but somehow struggle to fully acknowledge, is supported in glorious detail, if only one is willing to delve into the extensive, available data with an open mind and willingness to learn. Of course, we know who that excludes, and amazingly, they still count almost 40% of the populace, if surveys can be believed.
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