Here is the latest employment chart from the BLS....
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It's interesting to note that more people are gainfully employed today than during Bush's entire first term.
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employment chart from the BLS
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It is also interesting to note that the population has increased almost 10% but the number of employed has only gone up about 3%.
27,000,000 vs 1,000,000. I wouldn't call that sucess.- Vote on answer
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It all depends on what you WANT to believe.
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"Gainfully" is another gotcha. More may be employed, but a higher percentage of them are in low end jobs with non-livable wages. It's only going to get worse since the damage to the economy has consistently occurred under administrations left and right for decades.
Subsistence farming - Get ready for it, it's the future...
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No, that is not true.
Wages have actually gone up significantly and at a rate of about double that of inflation,
Want to see the charts ?
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Of course, kindergartners are imminently employable.