Trump deserves all the credit for our soaring labor market

[Crepitus]

They are at historic highs. Many of the rest are likely unemployable for one reason or another.

Yah, but we've been there. I posted the BLS chart up-thread. Go look.

[Tahuyaman]

If our current conditions were happening under the Obama administration, the hacks would be following him around fanning him with palm branches.

[Peter1469]

Yah, but we've been there. I posted the BLS chart up-thread. Go look.

It looks like articles that I linked to within the last year may have been wrong based on this data.

[Captdon]

Yup. the Home Depot is hiring more people these days. Those employees only require partial government help in order to live.

They only require living on what they make.

[Captdon]

I know people WITH an education working for just a hair over minimum wage. It is hard for me to relate to any employment "booms" because of where I live, a very depressed are. But when I was growing up local mills and mines paid well enough to raise a one earner family, complete with home ownership, straight out of high school. Where is THAT economy?

The liberals drove them out of business.

[Captdon]

Where would those high paying semi-skilled jobs be?

South Carolina for one.