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Worst jobs -resident in American history - Opinion by Robert Reich. Alternet via MSN (Original Post) B.See 7 hrs ago OP
This needs to be a bigger story Johnny2X2X 2 hrs ago #1
Sickening! oasis 1 hr ago #2
Could you imagine if this were Biden's job market? Johnny2X2X 1 hr ago #3

Johnny2X2X

(24,199 posts)
1. This needs to be a bigger story
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 07:23 AM
2 hrs ago

This isn’t just a random statistic. It’s people’s livelihoods. The doom this spells for the American worker cannot be put into words. This is a bigger deal that inflation only it’s a slow moving train. Rash rather than the immediacy of prices rising during inflation.

Johnny2X2X

(24,199 posts)
3. Could you imagine if this were Biden's job market?
Tue Mar 31, 2026, 08:41 AM
1 hr ago

That if in 2020, the Trump economy had produced 2.2M jobs (183,000 a month) and then in 2021 and into 2022 Joe Biden had ground net job creation to zero? That job creation went from 2.2M to 125,000 in 1 year and then near zero so far in year 2 of his presidency?

The media would be covering this like OJ Simpson rose from the dead, stole a Ford Bronco, hooked a chain to the Lincoln Memorial, and was driving around the White House towing Lincoln's head. It would be wall to wall coverage of people in diners talking about how hard it is to find a job right now. It would be non stop calls for Biden to resign over the total and complete destruction of an amazing jobs market. They'd be interviewing experts from local colleges on every local newscast to explain to people exactly what this means to them, lower wages, lower benefits, lower security, more uncertainty etc. etc. Every single person in the country would know exactly how bad this is for everyone and everyone would be talking about it.

They'd be working it into stories that don't even have anything to do with the job market like they worked inflation into every single news story during Biden. I remember seeing a local news story about a field trip a grade school took and the zoo and somehow, they worked inflation into the story, "Well, with prices being so high for everything, this might be the kid's only opportunity to get to do something like this this year..."

Trump completely destroyed the jobs market and the American Middle class is going to be paying the price of it for years to come.

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