Even four years after the original “Recovery Summer” the American people continue to experience the worst “recovery” for jobs ever. The House has passed 40 jobs bills in the last 18 months that have yet to be acted on by Senate Democrats.
As will be displayed in a series of releases, there are at least 40 reasons for the Senate to pass these 40 House jobs bills. The reasons define the distress Americans continue to feel in the “new normal” of high unemployment and weak job creation resulting from Obama Administration economic policies.
Reason #1: Worst “recovery” for jobs ever
Reason #2: At the current pace, the jobs gap won’t close until 2018
Reason #3: Worst “recovery” ever for long-term unemployed
Reason #4: Worst “recovery” ever for dropouts from the workforce
Reason #5: Record number of Americans are not working
Reason #6: The share of adults who are working is back to 1984 levels
Reason #7: The unemployment rate for African-Americans is more than twice the rate for whites
Reason #8: Men in their prime working years are not working
Reason #9: Far more adults have left the workforce than found new jobs
Reason #10: Invisible unemployment remains above 10 percent for 59 straight months
Reason #11: More people dropped out of the workforce during the “recovery” than during the recession
Reason #12: Thirty-two states have yet to recover lost jobs
Reason #13: Worst “recovery” ever for GDP growth
Reason #14: The U.S. economy shrank in the first quarter of 2014
Reason #15: Democrats’ $1 trillion stimulus didn’t reduce unemployment like they promised
Reason #16: Democrats’ $1 trillion stimulus didn’t create jobs like they promised
Reason #17: Share of adults working full-time remains near record lows
Reason #18: Full-time jobs down, part-time jobs up
Reason #19: Record numbers are working temp jobs
Reason #20: Median household income is down $2,000 during the “recovery”
Reason #21: Involuntary part-time employment remains nearly double pre-recession levels
Reason #22: Record numbers living in poverty
Reason #23: Near record numbers of poor children
Reason #24: Most job growth during the “recovery” in lower-wage occupations
Reason #25: Democrats’ $1 trillion stimulus didn’t create manufacturing jobs like they promised
Reason #26: Democrats’ $1 trillion stimulus didn’t create construction jobs like they promised
Reason #27: Economic conditions of today’s youth brand them a “lost generation”
Reason #28: Unemployment rate for young people is 13.6 percent
Reason #29: Record share of adult children living with their parents
Reason #30: Half of college grads are still relying on their parents years after graduation
Reason #31: Young people aren’t joining the workforce
Reason #32: In the last six years, 99% of net job growth has been among older workers
Reason #33: Today’s college grads face far higher unemployment rates
Reason #34: Millions of college grads are working jobs that don’t require their degree
Reason #35: Record numbers on food stamps
Reason #36: Record numbers on disability benefits
Reason #37: Disability beneficiaries outnumber jobs in manufacturing
Reason #38: Over half of Americans can’t afford their house
Reason #39: Minority families have suffered the most during the Obama “recovery”
Reason #40: 6 out of 10 say the American Dream is out of reach