Obama’s 11 Million Jobs Gap And 43 Months of Above 8% Unemployment Rates–Recovery In 2020?–Videos
Recovery 2020! We’re Barely on Pace to Close the Jobs Gap This Decade
“…At this rate, we’ll close the jobs gap in roughly … eight years.
Eight years!?
Yep, that is the conclusion from Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney at the Hamilton Project. Today the country faces a 11 million-person jobs gap. This “jobs gap” represents the number of jobs that the U.S. economy needs to return to pre-recession employment rates while also (this part is key!) absorbing everybody joining the labor force.
It’s not just enough to make jobs for everybody seeking work this year. We also have to account for the millions of people joining the workforce over the next decade. Filling the jobs gap is like filling a bucket that gets deeper every minute. How much deeper? Greenstone and Looney balance an influx of immigrant workers against the retirement of the baby boomers and conclude that labor force is likely to expand at a slowing pace. Before the Great Recession, it was growing at about 130,000 people per month. In the next few years, it will slow to 90,000 a month, they project. …”
CBS: “This Is The Worst Economic Recovery America Has Ever Had”
Vice Chairman Brady Questions BLS Commissioner at JEC Hearing on the Employment Situation
At a Joint Economic Committee Hearing on the Employment Situation, Representative Kevin Brady, Vice Chairman, questions Witness Dr. Keith Hall, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics about the effect of government spending on private sector job growth.
Vice Chairman Brady Questions Commissioner Hall about Labor Force Participation Rate at JEC Hearing
Background Articles and Videos
Rep. Brady Questions BLS Commissioner on the Need for Private Sector Job Growth
Rep. Brady questions BLS Commissioner Hall on the jump in the April unemployment rate at JEC hearing
Grim recovery outlook from BLS Comissioner Hall
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