this is what an incompetent, community organizer, who can't lead will produce of value....Nothing

You people posting here are idiots. The loss of low skill high wage jobs in manufacturing and growth of low wage service jobs has been happening since the 80's, but just keep blaming illegal aliens and healthcare for everything.

A few more years and we will all be working for the government. Romney could have done a better job with the economy with his eyes closed. The true financial picture of this country (including jobs) is disaster. No complaining-remember elections have consequences.

Charles Manson could do a better job.

When an Obamabot complains about no jobs, competition from the uninvited illegal alien invaders, or even mildly questions 16 trillion in national debt, then just laugh loudly, obnoxiously, and mockingly right in their face.

Genghis Khan's labor efficiency: Cut out all unnecessary staff; sometimes literally.

Charles Manson *is* doing the job....

history is replete with the failed efforts of governments to manage/promote economies, yet leftists can't get enough of the idea. i guess it's just about governments being in control, and "looking out for the little guy", not about the actual bad results of their efforts. i'll take the private sector any day, thanks.

If Obama had been true to his instincts and his base, he would have simply gone for single-payer. That would have led to a much more orderly transformation of the economy from one no longer dependent on employer-based healthcare. And it would finally have gotten healthcare for all of our people, like most advanced societies. But instead he went with Heritage Foundation ideas, put in place by a Repub governor in MA, in order to preserve the insurance companies. Of course he figured taking that approach would get him some GOP support and prevent them from calling him a socialist. Hahahaha! Good one!

as opposed to the way he did ACA in terms of getting and using any GOP ideas...hey lib, your clown built it, he owns it and your ideology will suffer as a result. Good day to be a conservative Id say!

You are terribly stupid. There is NO WAY single payer would have passed either the Senate or the House - - even without a single Republican vote to begin with.

The UK and their universal "health care" has WORSE outcomes across ALL major health diseases. Only a fool would still believe that universal systems that are bankrupting nations around the world are going to do anything other than increase joblessness and poverty.

What outcomes are worse in the UK?

per capita spending: UK $2,992 USA $7,995

infant mortality rate: UK 4.5 deaths per 1000 births USA 5.9 deaths per 1000 births

Adult mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 between ages of 15 and 60) UK: 79 USA: 103

average lifespan is equal with both at 82

Wait time differences were statistically insignificant which actually means UK outperformed USA due to the following:

Now, let's do a little thought experiment. Say you are in a country that has relatively high waiting times for elective procedures, say Canada. Take one sixth of your population and deny them access to care because, oh, they don't deserve it. What do your waiting times look like now? Take another sixth or so, and tell them they have to choose among school, dental care, glasses, food OR preventive health care. Or even life saving health care. OK, now how are your queues? Much better I expect. But what happened to your people? So when you look at the UK having wait time statistically equal to USA keep in mind that those wait times are achieved while serving 100% of the population While USA's system only serves about 2/3 of it's people

Great job Ostupid

The picture up top pretty much sums up what sort of jobs Barry has been adding to the "recovering economy".Barry the Bummer.I like it.

That's a great pic!

you cant have it both ways. Either the government cant creat jobs only business creates jobs and blame government / obama when the jobs are gone off shore

Governments role in job creation should be focused on creating an environment where businesses can grow and flourish in the US and compete/succeed in the global marketplace. The growth should be driven by the company/investors and not the government.

Anti-business examples: Keystone pipeline; offshore drilling; new EPA regulations; pro-union/anti-business rulings; Solyndra; highest corporate tax rate in the world; Obamacare; unemployment extensions.

Government cannot create jobs but it can get in the way with things like Obamacare, Tax hikes, Daud Frank, and the other Regulations holding down the job creation process

Government doesn't create wealth or jobs, but can set up the economic climate and conditions (by getting out of the enterprenuers way with burdensome regulations, minimizing taxes like Obamacare and corporate rates for example) for businesses to succede! The laws that are passed effect jobs. If the affordable health care act wasn't passed, we would be on our way to recovery!

ACA incentives less work, less pay per each worker. From the employer standpoint, it's obvious. Part-time workers get you out of paying the penalty. For individuals and families, you have to make sure you do not exceed income caps by even $1 or you lose your healthcare subsidies. Less work, less pay = less tax revenue for the government.

The good news is that small business owners with LESS than 50 employees will get to pay much higher premiums.

Now dont start clouding this discussion with facts :)

Part time workers got you out of paying for health insurance before the ACA was passed. This doesn't change anything

I am amazed that the liberal media is reporting this stuff. Too bad they weren't a little more even handed when it counted during the election

Or during the Obamacare debate, when all this was predicted as an outcome.

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From now on, the credibility of each economist should be tied to if they warned this very obvious outcome would occur.

Sorry, Paul. :-)

The reporting is still suspect; the writer fails to connect the dramatic rise in part-time jobs to the exemption of such jobs under Obamacare.

Minimum wage jobs suck.. the kind of responsibility you have is high and the wages are low. In Canada, there was a period where workers threw up their hands and said NO, we're not going to work for that amount of money.. and these businesses had to scramble to find employees paying all the way up to $11 - $15 an hour... back in 2006.. Workers need to use these low wage jobs as transition jobs to get the skills and quit to find better work. Then employers will be forced to reward you with loyalty & skilled labor wages. If you can flip burgers and McDonalds and make $7.25.. then you have the skills to transition as a line-prep cook at a restaurant! It is basically the same skillset.. you just get paid dirt for it at a corporate chain. On the other hand, since 2007 the competition for middle class job pay has steadily risen and many people are forced to take multiple lower paying jobs to make up for the single paid position to crawl back into the middle class. Often it is a challenge to find those jobs that have compatible schedules as many of these PT jobs want you on ON CALL.. which if so, they should PAY YOU MORE for that job (for ex. $100 a day minimum-- many don't).

As Americans are making less money. They will spend less when they go out. Instead eating restaurants they will eat at fastfood. So it will be hard for people to find a higher paying job.

responsibility high? don't think so. Taking money at a cash register or dropping fries is not high tech stuff my friend.

So if you work a few years at Micky dees maybe half of you can get a job as a prep cook for an average pay of $8.98 an hour and if you do that for a few years maybe half of those people can become line cooks for an average pay of $10 an hour and still be below the poverty line

That is as it should be - one should be paid according to the market value for the skills he brings to the job. If you want to be paid more, learn a trade or get a useful education. Stoop laborers are a-dime-a-dozen.

So if there are only 40 million jobs that pay a living wage you are ok with everybody else living in poverty? That's your vision for America? If not then what is the solution? education is not the solution. If everyone gets a masters degree tomorrow then we will have people with masters degrees flipping burgers and stocking shelves. Rather than trying to figure out how to get out of bad jobs we should be making sure there are no bad jobs

Now get real.

That is reality. There are 130 million jobs in America. The median wage is $16 an hour. A living wage is about $20 an hour. $20 an hour is the 72nd percentile. I actually gave you 4 million jobs over the factual data. In America of the 130 million jobs 36.4 million pay $20 an hour or more. 65 million pay $16 an hour or less.

Ok I see the point being made. They haven't "flipped" burgers in years! They are heated up! If that prepares you for the actual skill of cooking than I don't want to eat in that restaurant! If anything, these fast-food places are simply proof that the employee can be punctual, multitask, and be trusted around money. I mean I guess that is a skill for some kids but the 12 years of education should at least be able to produce that.

"a" job is better than no job, but minimum wage sucks if you're trying to keep a house or support a family. Bad all around and no easy solution. Still, a lot better than back in 08/09.

Agree, but this is all we are getting while watching the debt pile up higher and higher. That can't go on forever...then look out below. When? Who knows.

"a" job is better than no job", you're an id(7)iot!

Slaves had jobs. A job has no value beyond the standard of living it provides.

Spoken like someone with no self responsibility. Own up - support yourself

I support myself and my family just fine. I just don't thinbk I should pay taxes to subsidize Walmart's profits by paying their labor costs out of my pocket

In the Land of Obama, where rainbows shine bright, unicorns frolic with ligers, and liberals see the closest thing to a god that they can stand without being religious (except when it comes to the Religion of Global Warming and Abortion of course) these numbers are simply evidence of what the great, wonderful and magnanimous Dear Leader can provide for his subjects....and they damn well better like it oi else.

Liberalism: its not a disease, its a virus, it infects the host and kills it to stay alive for a brief period of time.

But Obama for five years has focused like a laser beam on jobs....

Righhhht. Lasered jobs to death

yes...Unions jobs, his job and Dems in Congress jobs....

Just for comparison, how much are the factory workers in Texas getting for assembling the Moto-X cellphone?

Houston area plant jobs (non-petroleum) pay about $20-25/hour, technical support (mechanics, electricians, instrument) about $28-30+. Would expect Dallas area to be similar.

Because wages are not the only costs to a business. They are just a
small (and shrinking) part of the puzzle. If you double everyones wages
you do not double a business's costs and do not need to double prices.
For example. Walmart had 477 Billion in Revenues and 1.4 Million
employees so they took in $340,000 per employee but they only paid an
average wage of $22,000. If they gave ALL of their employees a 50%
raise, Their costs would only rise by $11,000 per employee which is
could be covered by raising prices 3%

basedonstupid you have no idea what you are talking about. So you grab the GROSS revenue from a chart and then start dividing by the number of employees so you can figure out how big bad Walmart is? Perhaps you have never heard of the concept of net revenue? I'm not going to waste my time educating you but go ahead and google it and maybe you will learn a little and not sound like a fool on your next post.