The federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes monthly tallies for the employment-population ratio. That stat shows something rather straightforward: Among those who are living in America and are free to pursue employment, what percentage are employed? (The bureau excludes those who are under 16 years old, are active-duty military, or are — in the bureau’s own words — “inmates of institutions (for example, penal and mental facilities, homes for the aged),” from its tallies.)
Over the past quarter of a century (a total of 300 months), dating back to May 1987 and the Reagan administration, here are the 30 worst months (that is, the bottom 10 percent) for the employment-population ratio, along with the president who happened to be in office at that particular time (scroll down to the see the list):
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if you go 6 months prior to that, you have the worst 36 months in the last quarter century. Of course you also see that those 6 months were under bush, when the economy was nose diving, and started going up after the stimulus package under his replacement. go figure. here is a nice chart http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CES0000000001?output_view=net_1mth if you close your mind to facts, all you have left is fiction.
ReplyDeleteUnemployment was very high during the Ragan years. And the Bush years.
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shipped jobs overseas..
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