Does rising employment in the gig economy, Uber, food delivery services and others count as employment. Because it’s a growth field. Doesn’t mean it’s secure employment. Do day laborers who wait on street corners for building and landscape contractors to pick them for a few days of work count for employment. trumPP has no bragging rights about growth in employment as long as unemployment figures stay as high as they are.
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Unemployment isn’t the only measure of the job market. It only measures the percentage of workers actively seeking jobs, and it views all jobs as the same.
It’s worth saying that this is the weakest July since 2013.
Really? I haven’t heard that line at all, to be honest. What people have been saying is that the tariffs will do serious damage to his base voters. But to some extent he’s covering for that damage by subsidizing key industries, with of course the money ultimately being borrowed.
Believe it or not, “extrapolate from a personal anecdote about high tech” really isn’t the best way to get a feel for the economy.
Wow. So…just who is running on “a weak economy” anyway?
Trump is a national embarrassment. He’s a plutocrat and a racist and a pathological liar. His approval ratings have been at 42% +/- a tiny bit for his entire tenure.
Yes, it would be stupid to run against him based solely on what the economy looks like right now. But I wouldn’t get too terribly excited about his prospects, either. Job growth numbers this year have been poor, on average.
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Sure.
I am an SAP consultant. My mission while on the Carrier project was to help roll out the SAP system that already existed in the US to the Mexican counterparts. My area was purchasing.
We were tasked to extend purchased products and vendors to their company code and plant. We were tasked to make the purchasing document capability available to them. We trained them, we tested them, we transitioned a partial portion of the existing system in use in Indianapolis into the brand new plant at Monterrey. This process ran from 2010 to 2011.
The intent was always to move the Indy operation to Mexico. That’s why when DT said he wouldn’t let it happen, I knew he was full of it.
BTW, my last trip to Indy was just a week before the 500. I decided to take a run over to the speedway and watch some of the time trials.
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This is such a cop-out. Employers could certainly train people. But they don’t want to. They want to offload the cost of training either on the workers or on the government.
Yes, employers want perfect candidates. But they have to live in the same imperfect world that the rest of us live in.
Jack Kemp was selling this stuff 30 years ago. Yang isn’t “starting” anything.
In the world of high-tech hiring, there is a large number of recent graduates from colleges and community colleges of young people who are on top of the latest programming needs. There really isn’t a shortage of qualified people, and anybody who claims otherwise is just trying to drive costs down. There’s a very large supply of people who are overqualified for their work. And everybody knows that, if you get past a certain age, getting hired at a new job is incredibly difficult.
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This is such a cop-out. Employers could certainly train people. But they don’t want to. They want to offload the cost of training either on the workers or on the government.
Of course it is a cop out, but employers are going to hold work open as they have been (look at some of the job listing agings on these websites - they are in some cases months old). They absolutely don’t want to spend the money to train someone. Again, in my business, early on, we would lose 20% of the company side of the project team because they would go off and be consultants - they had a full-cycle implementation behind them and could make twice the money. Left the company that trained them high and dry.
It is when the business has been quiet for the last 12 months and suddenly there’s a whole bunch of new work in an area that doesn’t see a lot of activity.
I’ve had projects, like Kimball Furniture (which supplies the infamous modular office cubicle) completely shut down its project, expressly because the order book was drying up. Three months later, we were in a recession - why would anyone need new office furniture if RIFs are pending?
We can see what’s in front of us - so anecdotal is really ALL we have to work with.
In other news, my husband was let go his position in October and he was working in the job of his choice in November. Pretty much a lateral move, but still a good turnaround, and not in his original career of choice.
Again, we understand kitchen table economics. It’s how we’re affected that matters - what the market does is fine for some, but it really doesn’t affect everyone.
So yeah, on kitchen table economic issues, we’re all great. At least my family is. But trust me, I’ve been watching this for 23 years. It’s my anecdotal evidence, sure, but it is my experience.
I am not a member of any organized party — I am a Democrat.
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Here’s another way employment shrinks, small so far but could be part of the wave of the future where employees are redundant.
I was able to make an appointment with a doctor by using https://www.zocdoc.com/, an online medical care appointment booking service, providing free of charge medical care search facility for end users by integrating information about medical practices and doctors’ individual schedules in a central location.
No medical office personnel required, and it worked as smoothly as you might imagine.
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He died at a fairly young age in a plane crash, don’t wish that on any of us.
There are two major airports in Oklahoma City – Will Rogers is the main one for scheduled air travel, and Wiley Post gets a lot of general aviation. Both are named for people who died in plane crashes. (Actually, the same crash.)
A tragic accident, to be sure. But part of me has always loved the sheer indifference to irony (or omens) that went into those airport names.
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It’s a hell of a way to get your name on a building.
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Especially if you’re flying in to the Harvey Milk Terminal at SFO in order to attend a conference at the George R. Moscone Convention Center.
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Not quite. Tax cuts hardly qualify. There’s been no investment by government. Just skimming profits for the 1%.
A side trip here might be restorative.
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Well, not to be too obvious, but: JFK International Airport.
We name things after famous, or well-admired, people, some who died of natural causes, and others of homicide, plane crashes, etc. Better, in my opinion, than naming things after philanthropists who made their money on the backs of millions of their fellow citizens.
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This is very badly mistaken on multiple counts. The first is that you never, ever cede the advantage to your opponent, particularly not on something like this. The economy will be a part of the 2020 election, whether we like it or not. Either we have an answer, and run on that answer, or we give up and hand the election to Trump. I’m not prepared to do that.
A classic example from the past was the notion that Republicans couldn’t possibly attack Kerry on military matters because Bush was a draft-dodger and Kerry was a decorated veteran. How did that work out?
The second point is that the polls indicate that half the country or more either think that Trump doesn’t deserve the credit for the economy (he doesn’t) or they’re not sure. That means that this is not an issue he wins “hands down” on. And even those who are doing better and think that Trump might have something to do with it are nervous about tariffs and 20 to 30% or so think that he shouldn’t be reelected even if was responsible.
The third point is that the economic goodness is not hitting all areas of the country and not all segments of the population. The rich are making out like gangbusters. The rest of the country, not so much. This is putting Republicans in the awkward position of having to explain just how well off everyone is. If you’re explaining, you’re losing.
And finally, the Trump campaign has already conceded that they cannot run on the economy. That’s why they’ve moved forward with racism and divisiveness.
Democrats absolutely can, and should, run on the economy in all of its manifestations: good jobs, minimium wage, job security, pay and wealth inequity, people being left behind, with a side order of health care. These are winning topics, even in today’s economy.
Too bad the mainstream media will not examine the causes and realities of this current economic state.
Just imagine if John Kennedy Jr had lived.
Or Joe Kennedy Jr., or Kathleen Kennedy, or RFK.
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LaGuardia Airport in NY, now pretty much a wreck of an infrastructure, was named after one of the city’s most beloved mayors. JFK’s pretty much of a wreck too, lots of flights moved to EWR instead.
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