2016 Postmortem

Liberal_Stalwart71

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13. You write: "Yes unemployment is down since 2008, but those "new" jobs suck."

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 01:20 PM

Aug 2016

Response: No. That's not true. Some of those jobs are in the Service industry and don't pay a lot but those industry jobs are still in high demand for low-skilled workers who are looking for them. They don't pay well but that's not Obama's fault. Local, state, and CONGRESS are responsible for increasing the minimum wage. Also, there has been a growth in the technical and other professional fields. The problem is that there are two people in the labor force competing for those jobs. And some of them are either over-qualified or require additional training to quality. Again, not Obama's fault.

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