Part of that 'booming' economy is a low unemployment rate. As noted recently, the Bureau of Labor Statistics bases the official unemployment rate on employees "who did any work for pay or profit" during the week being surveyed. That includes part-time workers who are employed for just one hour a week.
The unemployment rate also fails to include those who have given up looking for work—4% more Americans than in the year 2000.
We're Gradually Giving Away Our Country's Wealth to the Children of the Rich
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Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
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