{"id":20352,"date":"2013-09-06T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20352"},"modified":"2013-09-06T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:38:16","slug":"some-pictures-from-the-latest-jobs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20352","title":{"rendered":"Some Pictures From The Latest Jobs Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 29, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/08\/28\/Labor-Participation-Rate-Hits-34-Year-Low\">Breitbart.com<\/a> posted a story about the current <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Labor force\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">labor force participation rate<\/a>. The chart below tells the story:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/37242E8628A0435CBA8B05A16E7BCE50.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although the unemployment numbers look good, they don&#8217;t tell the whole story:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/874ED6D512474405AF6CB2FCC6E98456.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The labor force participation rate is the lowest it has been in 34 years.<\/p>\n<p>The article at Breitbart contains this rather chilling quote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8220;Following the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Great Recession\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Recession\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Great Recession<\/a>, we&#8217;ve entered into the Great Shift,&#8221; says Express Employment Professionals CEO Bob Funk, who previously served as chairman of the Kansas City <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Federal Reserve Bank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_Reserve_Bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Federal Reserve Bank<\/a>. &#8220;This is a period defined by the Boomer retirement, Millennial frustration, and growing reliance on government programs. <em>All indicators suggest this shift is not sustainable.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>(emphasis mine)<\/p>\n<p>The economic policies of the Obama Administration have not worked. If President Obama will not reverse them, we need to elect people who will. Our future depends on it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=4dcf0b82-79da-4b8d-ab49-d8fc27f4ea4d\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 29, Breitbart.com posted a story about the current labor force participation rate. The chart below tells the story: Although the unemployment numbers look good, they don&#8217;t tell the whole story: The labor force participation rate is the lowest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20352\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6252,6253,3951,6251,1448,297],"class_list":["post-20352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart-com","tag-federal-reserve-bank","tag-federal-reserve-system","tag-great-recession","tag-labor-force","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20356,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20352\/revisions\/20356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}