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