Jul 4 2015

Non-working America soars by 640,000 in one month to new record of 93.6 million. Not in the labor force Americans up 11 million since 2010.

It is hard to believe that one out of every three Americans is financially supporting the other two-thirds.  The unemployment rate appears much lower than it is because of the odd math behind the labor force.  The latest unemployment rate of 5.3 percent sounds great until you realize that last month 640,000 Americans were plopped […]

Jun 3 2015

The working few and the inverted pyramid of labor: 1 out of 3 Americans financially carry the other two-thirds.

Last month a record 93,194,000 Americans were counted as not being in the labor force.  Counted might be the wrong word since this group is largely erased from any employment figures.  In fact, this is a large reason why the unemployment rate has fallen so dramatically.  Yet one grim financial reality remains.  That reality includes […]

May 10 2015

34 percent of Americans financially carry the country: Those not in the labor force hits another record at 93,194,000.

The unemployment rate is calculated by those in what is deemed the labor force.  With the unemployment rate dropping you would think that somehow, we’d be back in a glorious economy where everyone was financially moving up.  That is definitely not the case.  Every single day we have 11,000 Americans hitting 65 years of age […]

Feb 6 2015

The evolution of low wage America: The most common jobs by state in 1978 to 2014. The destruction of the manufacturing industry.

The US continues to see a widening gap between the army of low wage workers, the highly paid small upper-class, and a dwindling middle class.  We’ve already shown through IRS tax data that households make a lot less than people think.  The US has been on a very steady trend towards having a massive pool […]

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