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Economists Agree That President Obama’s Economic Gains Are Remarkable

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Economists Agree That President Obama’s Economic Gains Are Remarkable
Economists Agree That President Obama’s Economic Gains Are Remarkable



It’s really a best-case scenario. The economy consistently moving in the right direction with job growth that is pretty remarkable.

Republicans are proud to broadcast to the world how wonderful America is in one breath and decry how horrible it is with a Democrat in the Oval Office without ever skipping a beat. Their contradictory statements notwithstanding, they know America is thriving and the economic report released Friday proves it. But according to economic experts across the nation, there was more good economic news in the report than just another month of healthy job gains.

Although Americans still need a raise, something President Obama has called for since 2009, after years of economic desperation, American workers are finally regaining some of the ground they lost in the last Republican-created recession and the Republican-obstructed recovery that followed. According to the latest economic reports for March, under President Obama “companies have been hiring at a pace not seen before in this century, and wages are rising faster than inflation.” That was not the only good news.


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Economists Agree That President Obama’s Economic Gains Are Remarkable
Economists Agree That President Obama’s Economic Gains Are Remarkable



It’s really a best-case scenario. The economy consistently moving in the right direction with job growth that is pretty remarkable.

Republicans are proud to broadcast to the world how wonderful America is in one breath and decry how horrible it is with a Democrat in the Oval Office without ever skipping a beat. Their contradictory statements notwithstanding, they know America is thriving and the economic report released Friday proves it. But according to economic experts across the nation, there was more good economic news in the report than just another month of healthy job gains.

Although Americans still need a raise, something President Obama has called for since 2009, after years of economic desperation, American workers are finally regaining some of the ground they lost in the last Republican-created recession and the Republican-obstructed recovery that followed. According to the latest economic reports for March, under President Obama “companies have been hiring at a pace not seen before in this century, and wages are rising faster than inflation.” That was not the only good news.


ALSO SEE:
Employment Situation Summary
Forbes Welcome
Still strong: U.S. economy adds 242,000 jobs | FOX6Now.com

PoliticusUSA was founded in February of 2008 by Jason Easley. Jason had a vision of a liberal and independent news site which would offer a mix politics and opinion in an unfiltered environment, not beholden to any specific political or media agenda.

I'm sure their views of things is truly unbiased. I really love these:
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THE WAR ON WOMEN
RESEARCH
ABOUT US
PRIVACY POLICY
PRESIDENT OBAMA



Yep, sounds like the sort of site any True Conservative should go for news! Hell sounds like the sort of place only discerning, honest readers should go to! (BTW I get the "ironic" hipster thing you're doing with the "Conservative" schtick you got going)

We're in a recession, tens of millions are unemployed, tens of millions are on the Gov't Dole. Yep, we really are doing gangbusters after 7 years of Obamanomics!
 
Guess that proves it once and for all. Supply side works!
Obama wisely kept the Bush tax cuts in effect with a very small increase in the top rate .
 
Economists Agree That President Obama’s Economic Gains Are Remarkable
Economists Agree That President Obama’s Economic Gains Are Remarkable



It’s really a best-case scenario. The economy consistently moving in the right direction with job growth that is pretty remarkable.

Republicans are proud to broadcast to the world how wonderful America is in one breath and decry how horrible it is with a Democrat in the Oval Office without ever skipping a beat. Their contradictory statements notwithstanding, they know America is thriving and the economic report released Friday proves it. But according to economic experts across the nation, there was more good economic news in the report than just another month of healthy job gains.

Although Americans still need a raise, something President Obama has called for since 2009, after years of economic desperation, American workers are finally regaining some of the ground they lost in the last Republican-created recession and the Republican-obstructed recovery that followed. According to the latest economic reports for March, under President Obama “companies have been hiring at a pace not seen before in this century, and wages are rising faster than inflation.” That was not the only good news.


ALSO SEE:
Employment Situation Summary
Forbes Welcome
Still strong: U.S. economy adds 242,000 jobs | FOX6Now.com

Here are 2 charts that show something quite different:

EtoPRatio.jpg

The Employment to Population Ratio is the ratio of the American workforce, to eligible workers. As you can see it's at a 30 year low. Since the statistic has been kept, it has always inversely followed the unemployment rate. That is to say, when the unemployment rate has gone up, it has gone down and when unemployment has gone down, it has gone up... That is, until the Obama recovery. When the unemployment rate shot up starting in 2008, the EP ratio plummeted just as expected. However, when the unemployment rate began it's steady 5 year decline starting in 2010, for the first time ever the EP ratio didn't follow suite. The reason is simple... The unemployment rate, for the first time in my life, does not reflect anywhere near the actual number of people who are out of work in the US. Which in reality is at a 30 year high.



familyIncome.jpg

So tell me... How can things be going so well, when the median family income has been in a near steady decline and is significantly lower today, than it was when Obama took office,?


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Here are 2 charts that show something quite different:

View attachment 67199889

The Employment to Population Ratio is the ratio of the American workforce, to eligible workers. As you can see it's at a 30 year low. Since the statistic has been kept, it has always inversely followed the unemployment rate. That is to say, when the unemployment rate has gone up, it has gone down and when unemployment has gone down, it has gone up... That is, until the Obama recovery. When the unemployment rate shot up starting in 2008, the EP ratio plummeted just as expected. However, when the unemployment rate began it's steady 5 year decline starting in 2010, for the first time ever the EP ratio didn't follow suite. The reason is simple... The unemployment rate, for the first time in my life, does not reflect anywhere near the actual number of people who are out of work in the US. Which in reality is at a 30 year high.



View attachment 67199888

So tell me... How can things be going so well, when the median family income has been in a near steady decline and is significantly lower today, than it was when Obama took office,?


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The important date to look at is probably 1989, when the country's situation changed radically. Now it takes time for economies and societies to travers to new optima and it happens in waves or cycles. This is part of what the graphs show. Society was set for Cold War and suddenly it was gone and left resources available. Lacking an enough large cut in fiscal spending we overshot into a series of bubbles that still plague development.
 
Here are 2 charts that show something quite different:

View attachment 67199889

The Employment to Population Ratio is the ratio of the American workforce, to eligible workers.
No, it's the ratio of Employed to the adult civilian non-institutional population. "workforce" is often used in place of "labor force," which is employed plus unemployed, and "eligible workers" is an undefined term.


As you can see it's at a 30 year low. Since the statistic has been kept, it has always inversely followed the unemployment rate. That is to say, when the unemployment rate has gone up, it has gone down and when unemployment has gone down, it has gone up... That is, until the Obama recovery. When the unemployment rate shot up starting in 2008, the EP ratio plummeted just as expected. However, when the unemployment rate began it's steady 5 year decline starting in 2010, for the first time ever the EP ratio didn't follow suite.
It didn't?
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The reason is simple... The unemployment rate, for the first time in my life, does not reflect anywhere near the actual number of people who are out of work in the US.
It has never reflected that. It was never meant to. The UE rate has always been the percent of those who are doing something about work who are unsuccessful. A lager percent of retirement age people, and a larger number of disabled have muted the rise in the emp-pop ratio, but it has been going up.

Which in reality is at a 30 year high.
Only if you include people who don't want a job.


So tell me... How can things be going so well, when the median family income has been in a near steady decline and is significantly lower today, than it was when Obama took office,?

The most recent census data on median household income is from 2014...which is hardly "today."

Mean hourly and weekly wages have been going up since then.
 
I'm sure their views of things is truly unbiased. I really love these:
KOCH BLOCK IT
THE WAR ON WOMEN
RESEARCH
ABOUT US
PRIVACY POLICY
PRESIDENT OBAMA



Yep, sounds like the sort of site any True Conservative should go for news! Hell sounds like the sort of place only discerning, honest readers should go to! (BTW I get the "ironic" hipster thing you're doing with the "Conservative" schtick you got going)

We're in a recession, tens of millions are unemployed, tens of millions are on the Gov't Dole. Yep, we really are doing gangbusters after 7 years of Obamanomics!

Sorry the economic recovery passed you by...........
 
Here are 2 charts that show something quite different:

View attachment 67199889

The Employment to Population Ratio is the ratio of the American workforce, to eligible workers. As you can see it's at a 30 year low. Since the statistic has been kept, it has always inversely followed the unemployment rate. That is to say, when the unemployment rate has gone up, it has gone down and when unemployment has gone down, it has gone up... That is, until the Obama recovery. When the unemployment rate shot up starting in 2008, the EP ratio plummeted just as expected. However, when the unemployment rate began it's steady 5 year decline starting in 2010, for the first time ever the EP ratio didn't follow suite. The reason is simple... The unemployment rate, for the first time in my life, does not reflect anywhere near the actual number of people who are out of work in the US. Which in reality is at a 30 year high.



View attachment 67199888

So tell me... How can things be going so well, when the median family income has been in a near steady decline and is significantly lower today, than it was when Obama took office,?


.


That's why many favor the $15 per hour minimum wage increase the GOP has gone to lengths to let not happen...................Take your silly chart which don't prove squat.......except folks can make numbers say anything the want............

But then you want to argue against what REAL PROFESSIONAL economists say.................where did you get your doctorate from?
 
That's why many favor the $15 per hour minimum wage increase the GOP has gone to lengths to let not happen...................Take your silly chart which don't prove squat.......except folks can make numbers say anything the want............

But then you want to argue against what REAL PROFESSIONAL economists say.................where did you get your doctorate from?

Jerry Brown Admits $15 Min Wage Bad; Signs Anyway - Breitbart
 
Guess that proves it once and for all. Supply side works!
Obama wisely kept the Bush tax cuts in effect with a very small increase in the top rate .

Because that's the only thing that happened under Obama, the only thing he did. Keeping Bush tax cuts.



Way to demonstrate that supply-siders wouldn't know a clue if it bit them on the arse.
 
Because that's the only thing that happened under Obama, the only thing he did. Keeping Bush tax cuts.



Way to demonstrate that supply-siders wouldn't know a clue if it bit them on the arse.

I see my brilliant satire went right over your head.How many imes have heard from the person who started this post that supply side ' doesn't work" . (As if it something like that can be reduced to a a yes/no)
So if liberals (or conservatives) want to argue that the economy is good (or bad) , what is it that did the trick? We used a heavy dose of both Keynesian and supply side. Which worked Which didn't?
 
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