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Percentage Not in Labor Force Remains at 36-Year High

Whitewing

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The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one remained at a 36-year high in May, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

In December, April, and now May, the labor force participation rate has been 62.8 percent. That means that 37.2 percent were not participating in the labor force during those months.

Before December, the last time the labor force participation rate sunk as low as 62.8 percent was February 1978, when it was also 62.8 percent. At that time, Jimmy Carter was president.


http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/372-percentage-not-labor-force-remains-36-year-high

Though I suspect all is just swell in Fatman Land. Que Borowitz in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1................ :roll:
 

Mike

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Ol' Fatsquatch ain't worried 'bout nobody but his' self. Naw, he ain't worried one bit about his grand chillen. :lol:
 

Steve

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there are plenty of jobs around here.. but mostly foreign students and illegals get hired due to the low cost of paying them..

Ain't America great.. we screw our poor to help greedy employers and dictators..
 

Bullhauler

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The percentage of American civilians 16 or older who do not have a job and are not actively seeking one


If people are not actively seeking a job how in the hell are they supposed to find one?

There was good economic news reported too. The fact that people not looking for a job can't find one isn't my problem.
 
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Anonymous

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Mike said:
Ol' Fatsquatch ain't worried 'bout nobody but his' self. Naw, he ain't worried one bit about his grand chillen. :lol:





A lot of states don’t get as much attention as they deserve and most of them have a pretty big inferiority complex because of it. But not Montanans. They know that most people overlook their state. Afterall, it’s the fourth largest state but ranks 48th in population. Even the deer and elk outnumber the people here.

But Montanans don’t really care because they know exactly what everyone is missing out on in the Treasure State: Yellowstone, National Glacier Park, amber waves of grain, and salt of the earth people.

In fact, Montanans like that outsiders look down on the state because it means that it stays theirs to enjoy. They’ll even go out of their way to tell people that the stereotypes of it being unbearably cold and desolate are true to ensure that they stay away.

“No, you wouldn’t like Montana. You’ll die of hypothermia just going outside to get your mail and it’s easily the ugliest state in the country. You’d hate it here.”

http://www.movoto.com/blog/opinions/montana-stereotypes/

Actually it is because of our grandchildren that we in Montana prefer that the riffraff and troublemakers stay out of the state... Montana made me proud the other day- when the KKK Tea Party candidate for Congress only got less than 2% of the vote... :D
 

iwannabeacowboy

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Yeah, because this thread was about Montana's population. :roll:

So you agree that the economic recovery of your dear leader isn't happening. :wink:


Since you brought up Montana's overall lack of growth. I heard it was the presence of the muslim sympathizing, bestiality loving, testicles lacking, commie extremists that is keeping all but the Hollyweird crowd out.

 

loomixguy

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iwannabeacowboy said:
Yeah, because this thread was about Montana's population. :roll:

So you agree that the economic recovery of your dear leader isn't happening. :wink:


Since you brought up Montana's overall lack of growth. I heard it was the presence of the muslim sympathizing, bestiality loving, testicles lacking, commie extremists that is keeping all but the Hollyweird crowd out.


ROTFLMFAO!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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Anonymous

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Montana's recovery from recession is complete, but workers needed



Drilling and workover rigs operate along North Dakota’s Little Missouri River. A research and consulting firm estimates that oil production in North Dakota and Montana will average 1.1 million barrels per day this year.


May 25, 2014 12:00 am • By ERIK OLSON


Fueled by job growth around the Bakken oil fields, Montana has fully recovered from the lingering recession, reaching employment levels not seen in five years, according to a state economist.

But businesses desperately need new workers to meet growing demand and replace retirees, or they will struggle to grow, said Barbara Wagner, chief economist of the state’s Department of Labor and Industries. Montana gained about 10,000 jobs in the first four months of 2014, equal to the total job gains in both 2012 and 2013.

“For Montana, and the United States as a whole, we have a huge baby boomer population that is retiring, and there is not enough workers, or enough people period, to replace the baby boomers,”
Wagner said.

“It’s pretty hard to run your business when you can’t find workers. ... People lose money in their business when they can’t find workers,” she said last week.

In April, the most recent data available, Montana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.8 percent, the lowest in more than five years. The last time the state’s jobless rate fell below 5 percent was August 2008, just as the recession began strangling the economy nationwide.

The state lost about 30,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010, largely because of slowdowns in construction, the collapse of the housing market and cutbacks in the timber industry. It took four years for statewide employment levels to come back, largely because of the Bakken boom and related service jobs that have popped up in Eastern Montana, Wagner said.

The Bakken is lifting all areas of the state because the high-paying oil industry jobs are attracting workers to move from other parts of Montana, Wagner said.

The unemployment rate is the most common barometer of economic health in the region. In Montana, the unemployment rate peaked at nearly 7 percent in 2010.

Yellowstone County’s unemployment rate in April was 3.2 percent.

Wagner said she expects total jobs statewide to grow 1.7 percent in 2014 and 2015, with the health care industry leading the way. Wages are also continuing to grow about 1 percent faster than inflation each year, giving workers more purchasing power for groceries, gasoline and other goods, she said.

“Montana’s economy is doing very well,” she said.



Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/business/montana-s-recovery-from-recession-is-complete-but-workers-needed/article_58882bb0-32ba-58d8-aec1-d8444cd237ca.html#ixzz32yTo8hO6


“Montana’s economy is doing very well,” she said.

She echoes exactly what I've been saying for quite sometime- if you want to work, there are lots of jobs... Some counties in Montana have unemployment rates of 2%...
If people don't have a job- its because they don't want to work...

wannabe- maybe if you switch from loving up your ewe to a goat- you could find a job- but from your "whiney, want everything given to you" attitude I know it won't ever be as a cowboy! :roll:
 

iwannabeacowboy

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See, this is what I'm talking about LB. The normal people just don't want to know what you call "getting a job", or "ventures". Is this what your "special uncle" taught you?

Now I more fully understand part of your love for muslims and illegals and how you think that an influx of both will help the unemployment. In your scary, but very roomy noggin, more goats = more jobs.
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
Montana's recovery from recession is complete, but workers needed



Drilling and workover rigs operate along North Dakota’s Little Missouri River. A research and consulting firm estimates that oil production in North Dakota and Montana will average 1.1 million barrels per day this year.


May 25, 2014 12:00 am • By ERIK OLSON


Fueled by job growth around the Bakken oil fields, Montana has fully recovered from the lingering recession, reaching employment levels not seen in five years, according to a state economist.

But businesses desperately need new workers to meet growing demand and replace retirees, or they will struggle to grow, said Barbara Wagner, chief economist of the state’s Department of Labor and Industries. Montana gained about 10,000 jobs in the first four months of 2014, equal to the total job gains in both 2012 and 2013.

“For Montana, and the United States as a whole, we have a huge baby boomer population that is retiring, and there is not enough workers, or enough people period, to replace the baby boomers,”
Wagner said.

“It’s pretty hard to run your business when you can’t find workers. ... People lose money in their business when they can’t find workers,” she said last week.

In April, the most recent data available, Montana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.8 percent, the lowest in more than five years. The last time the state’s jobless rate fell below 5 percent was August 2008, just as the recession began strangling the economy nationwide.

The state lost about 30,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010, largely because of slowdowns in construction, the collapse of the housing market and cutbacks in the timber industry. It took four years for statewide employment levels to come back, largely because of the Bakken boom and related service jobs that have popped up in Eastern Montana, Wagner said.

The Bakken is lifting all areas of the state because the high-paying oil industry jobs are attracting workers to move from other parts of Montana, Wagner said.

The unemployment rate is the most common barometer of economic health in the region. In Montana, the unemployment rate peaked at nearly 7 percent in 2010.

Yellowstone County’s unemployment rate in April was 3.2 percent.

Wagner said she expects total jobs statewide to grow 1.7 percent in 2014 and 2015, with the health care industry leading the way. Wages are also continuing to grow about 1 percent faster than inflation each year, giving workers more purchasing power for groceries, gasoline and other goods, she said.

“Montana’s economy is doing very well,” she said.



Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/business/montana-s-recovery-from-recession-is-complete-but-workers-needed/article_58882bb0-32ba-58d8-aec1-d8444cd237ca.html#ixzz32yTo8hO6


“Montana’s economy is doing very well,” she said.

She echoes exactly what I've been saying for quite sometime- if you want to work, there are lots of jobs... Some counties in Montana have unemployment rates of 2%...
If people don't have a job- its because they don't want to work...

wannabe- maybe if you switch from loving up your ewe to a goat- you could find a job- but from your "whiney, want everything given to you" attitude I know it won't ever be as a cowboy! :roll:

Hmmm. Weren't you the same assclown who was telling us how you'd seen firsthand the dirt-poor downtrodden in Montana who lived hand to mouth? Oh yeah, that was you, but you were trying to make another point so that story fit better. :roll:
 
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Anonymous

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Whitewing said:
Oldtimer said:
Montana's recovery from recession is complete, but workers needed



Drilling and workover rigs operate along North Dakota’s Little Missouri River. A research and consulting firm estimates that oil production in North Dakota and Montana will average 1.1 million barrels per day this year.


May 25, 2014 12:00 am • By ERIK OLSON


Fueled by job growth around the Bakken oil fields, Montana has fully recovered from the lingering recession, reaching employment levels not seen in five years, according to a state economist.

But businesses desperately need new workers to meet growing demand and replace retirees, or they will struggle to grow, said Barbara Wagner, chief economist of the state’s Department of Labor and Industries. Montana gained about 10,000 jobs in the first four months of 2014, equal to the total job gains in both 2012 and 2013.

“For Montana, and the United States as a whole, we have a huge baby boomer population that is retiring, and there is not enough workers, or enough people period, to replace the baby boomers,”
Wagner said.

“It’s pretty hard to run your business when you can’t find workers. ... People lose money in their business when they can’t find workers,” she said last week.

In April, the most recent data available, Montana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.8 percent, the lowest in more than five years. The last time the state’s jobless rate fell below 5 percent was August 2008, just as the recession began strangling the economy nationwide.

The state lost about 30,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010, largely because of slowdowns in construction, the collapse of the housing market and cutbacks in the timber industry. It took four years for statewide employment levels to come back, largely because of the Bakken boom and related service jobs that have popped up in Eastern Montana, Wagner said.

The Bakken is lifting all areas of the state because the high-paying oil industry jobs are attracting workers to move from other parts of Montana, Wagner said.

The unemployment rate is the most common barometer of economic health in the region. In Montana, the unemployment rate peaked at nearly 7 percent in 2010.

Yellowstone County’s unemployment rate in April was 3.2 percent.

Wagner said she expects total jobs statewide to grow 1.7 percent in 2014 and 2015, with the health care industry leading the way. Wages are also continuing to grow about 1 percent faster than inflation each year, giving workers more purchasing power for groceries, gasoline and other goods, she said.

“Montana’s economy is doing very well,” she said.



Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/business/montana-s-recovery-from-recession-is-complete-but-workers-needed/article_58882bb0-32ba-58d8-aec1-d8444cd237ca.html#ixzz32yTo8hO6


“Montana’s economy is doing very well,” she said.

She echoes exactly what I've been saying for quite sometime- if you want to work, there are lots of jobs... Some counties in Montana have unemployment rates of 2%...
If people don't have a job- its because they don't want to work...

wannabe- maybe if you switch from loving up your ewe to a goat- you could find a job- but from your "whiney, want everything given to you" attitude I know it won't ever be as a cowboy! :roll:

Hmmm. Weren't you the same assclown who was telling us how you'd seen firsthand the dirt-poor downtrodden in Montana who lived hand to mouth? Oh yeah, that was you, but you were trying to make another point so that story fit better. :roll:

That was in the Bush era- before they started letting the oil boys drill... :wink:
 

hypocritexposer

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Oldtimer said:
Whitewing said:
Oldtimer said:
She echoes exactly what I've been saying for quite sometime- if you want to work, there are lots of jobs... Some counties in Montana have unemployment rates of 2%...
If people don't have a job- its because they don't want to work...

wannabe- maybe if you switch from loving up your ewe to a goat- you could find a job- but from your "whiney, want everything given to you" attitude I know it won't ever be as a cowboy! :roll:

Hmmm. Weren't you the same assclown who was telling us how you'd seen firsthand the dirt-poor downtrodden in Montana who lived hand to mouth? Oh yeah, that was you, but you were trying to make another point so that story fit better. :roll:

That was in the Bush era- before they started letting the oil boys drill... :wink:

Drilling on Federal lands, are they?

:roll:
 

Mike

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Obama was wrong to flatly deny that he cut in half the number of new federal permits and leases for oil and natural gas drilling.

The number of new offshore leases has plummeted under Obama — falling by more than half, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.

During Obama’s first term, the U.S. has so far issued 1,304 new offshore leases compared with 3,317 in Bush’s second term — a decrease of 61 percent.

The number of new permits for offshore wells also nosedived. The U.S. approved 1,316 new permits during Bush’s second term. The number has fallen to 515 — so far — under Obama, also a 61 percent drop.

The Obama administration had halted the drilling of all new offshore wells for one month after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in 2010, which killed 11 people and resulted in the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

The administration then issued a months-long moratorium on the drilling of new deepwater wells. New safety requirements also slowed down the permitting process for new shallow-water wells.

The administration, for instance, approved only 12 new offshore leases in 2011.
 

Brad S

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Montana is still among the lowest per capita wage earners. Sure is a good thing those commiebamas are facilitating oil production.

OT, if you continue to name call and LIE, I'm going to ask for your banishment. I refer to you slurring tea party candidates with your KKK reference. As if you care about truth, I'll give you some information that will help you be more truthful, but this is clearly more an issue with your mother's failed life, and I suspect it's too late to clean up behind her now:

It goes like this, and it's real simple: KKK = Democratic support group. Tea party = anti national socialist (nazi)/ Democratic Party.

There was a pesky little evil brotherhood of national socialists that hated Jews, not very different from the national socialists that hate negroes. Don't blame tea party for the evil of national socialists(Democrats).

Ok, ya got it now OT? So we won't have to plow this field again, right?
 

hopalong

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oldtimer will never get it he is too wrapped up in his self worth to see the truth, or even attempt to look at things realistically...
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Back away from the bottler and seek help oldtimer
 
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Anonymous

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Brad S said:
Montana is still among the lowest per capita wage earners. Sure is a good thing those commiebamas are facilitating oil production.

OT, if you continue to name call and LIE, I'm going to ask for your banishment. I refer to you slurring tea party candidates with your KKK reference. As if you care about truth, I'll give you some information that will help you be more truthful, but this is clearly more an issue with your mother's failed life, and I suspect it's too late to clean up behind her now:

It goes like this, and it's real simple: KKK = Democratic support group. Tea party = anti national socialist (nazi)/ Democratic Party.

There was a pesky little evil brotherhood of national socialists that hated Jews, not very different from the national socialists that hate negroes. Don't blame tea party for the evil of national socialists(Democrats).

Ok, ya got it now OT? So we won't have to plow this field again, right?

:lol: :lol: :lol: OK I GOT IT- FREE SPEACH for you- but not for anyone that disagrees !!!!! The new Tea Party way- try and intimidate anyone you disagree with.... :roll:

That layout of politics is your opinion and may have been somewhat true 40-50 years ago- but the racists and KKK types (neo-Nazi's, Skinheads, homophobes and anti Semitic's ) no longer like the Dems, and many have found a welcome bed with some of the Tea Party groups...
If you kept up with the site- you would have known it wasn't me that first called the Tea Party member racist- and described him as a KKK type member-- it was the Republican Party and the articles that came out after the Billings Chapter of the Republican Party wouldn't allow him to come to their Lincoln Day function because they said they didn't want to give him a platform to spout his racist hate messages...
I'm not looking up my old posts on it- but google Montana Congressional candidate Turiano and get informed...

Start with: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/14/drew-turiano-gop_n_4964219.html
or
http://billingsgazette.com/local-republican-party-turns-away-congressional-candidate-cites-racism/article_8ac29ef4-e747-5ef1-abee-1d4627d39a45.html
 

hopalong

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As usual you want other people to do your work for you,,, of course we have come to expect that from some one who uses his son to do his fights for him... squeezing pimples and all!!!!!! :wink:
 

Brad S

Well-known member
Old dishonorable timer, YOU wrongly called tea party groups factually false names so you respond by blaming others and trying to get real general so any slur fits. You illustrate a dishonorable existence.
 

loomixguy

Well-known member
I would also add that OT exhibits a miserable existence. Can you imagine being him, so filled with hatred, jealousy, bigotry, stupidity, and self loathing? His only joys in life are bellying up to the bar, the dinner table, and the computer.
 
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