tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912833783359356343.post8769843954524198392..comments2023-11-02T06:44:25.146-05:00Comments on Molly's Middle America: How Many Jobs Created or Lost Under Obama? (September update)Middle Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11441441493867436577noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912833783359356343.post-92093710657672165862012-11-05T15:03:51.573-06:002012-11-05T15:03:51.573-06:00It's ARITHMETIC, Anonymous.
Think of pizzas...It's ARITHMETIC, Anonymous. <br /><br />Think of pizzas. Let's say you have a thin crust pizza that is 12 inches in diameter and a thin crust pizza that is 16 inches in diameter. You cut each pizza into 12 equal pieces. Now, assuming you like pizza, which piece of pizza would you want.. One from a 12 inch pie or one from a 16 inch pie?<br /><br />That's what happened.. the "pie"... the total number of workers and the total number of jobs...is bigger than it was in January 2009. So the total number of jobs is higher even when you take out the piece that is the unemployed segment.Middle Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441441493867436577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912833783359356343.post-6033416153671186802012-11-05T14:59:11.186-06:002012-11-05T14:59:11.186-06:00Sorry, I thought I answered this days ago. Two em...Sorry, I thought I answered this days ago. Two employment sectors make up the "jobs in total": Private sector jobs and government sector jobs. The private sector jobs has gone up for 32 months straight, but the number of government sector jobs has gone down most of the months over the past two years.<br /><br />So.. the "total increase" of jobs is the increase in private sector number of jobs minus the decrease in government jobs.<br /><br />"People working" comes from a different source than "jobs" and it includes self-employed people and agricultural workers. As a whole, the total number of jobs is about 93-94% the number of "people working".Middle Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441441493867436577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912833783359356343.post-42149842295204693152012-11-02T17:38:45.837-05:002012-11-02T17:38:45.837-05:00Molly, Molly, Molly. How do you end your first ter...Molly, Molly, Molly. How do you end your first term with a worse percentage of unemployed Americans than when you start and still claim to have added such a high number of net jobs? I think the number of 195,000 net jobs added would be closer to the truth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912833783359356343.post-75915091577655880482012-10-25T09:53:37.876-05:002012-10-25T09:53:37.876-05:00Please explain how "more jobs in total" ...Please explain how "more jobs in total" is less than "more private sector jobs" and "more people working" Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com