Friday, July 13, 2018

US Labor Force Participation


In June 2018, there were 257,642,000 working-age US citizens. 162,140,000 or 62.9% were in the labor force and 95,502,000 were not in the labor force. 155,576,000 or 60.4% were employed. 6,564,000 or 4% were unemployed

The US is graduating 3 million students each year into the workforce. This includes 1 million high school grads and 2 million college grads. 

The US created 1.287 million new jobs in first 6 months of 2018 and we continue to average 214.5 million new jobs per month, we will have moved job creation for 2018 to 2.574 million  We created 2.188 million in 2017. If job creation expands at a higher rate, we could see 3 million for 2018.

We need to quit the UN Refugee Program, end unnecessary immigration programs like the lottery, chain migration and anchor-babies. We need to end welfare for non-citizens. We need to seal the Mexican border to reduce illegal immigration entry and concentrate on hiring US citizens.

We off-shored our engineering jobs and now need to build them back and this will take time. We allowed $3.3 trillion or 18% of US GDP to be spent on healthcare, so they are spending it.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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