Trump vs Biden: Jobs
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YOU WIN, (whether or not you’ve already lost your job).
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A Message from the Chief Babysitting Officer.
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You win, because my understanding of larger economic issues is as good as, and as subjective as, yours. Â
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Vice President, Biden’s economic agenda, as evaluated by Moody’s Analytics, could lead to 7 million more jobs created compared to President Donald Trump's plans, and could result in higher incomes for the middle class.  Then again, Moody analyzed the mortgage market to be nice & rosy right up until the horrible 2008 crash. Â
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In the beginning of the 4th year of President Trump’s term, just before the COVID crisis America’s unemployment rate had fallen to a 50-year low of 3.5%, but of course, our Government only counts people who have been:Â
(i) actively looking for work in the last 4 weeks orÂ
(ii) furloughed. Â
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Adding in millions of us:
(i) in part time jobs who can’t find full work,
(ii) on unpaid leave, and
(ii) who have tried & failed and given up on trying to find a job during the past year,
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Pushes the percentage of desperately struggling Americans skyrockets to 30.7% according to the Washington Post and research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.Â
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Those are Great Depression numbers!  And if that isn’t depressing enough, how’s this: Axios reports that three-quarters of jobs created since the 2008 crash pay less than $50,000 per year. Â
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For further reading…
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/07/trumps-numbers-july-2020-update/
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/economy/august-jobs-report-trump-jobs-record/index.htm