In April, the Fed's otherwise boring Beige Book revealed a striking anecdote about the current state of the US labor market: as the Boston Fed commented at the time, the qualified labor shortage had gotten so bad, that the hit rate on hiring after a simple math and drug test, has collapsed below 50%. To wit:
It's a triple-whammy - Americans are overworked, Americans are underpaid, and, now, potentially as a result of these, Statista's Isabel von Kessler writs that Americans are overweight - over 2 in 5 American workers have put on pounds at their present job.
A survey by Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder, asked workers what they thought contributed most to weight gain at their current workplace.
Submitted by Austin Berg, of IllinoisPolicy.org
Illinois’ jobs growth was worse than every neighboring state, and half the neighboring state average from June 2016 to June 2017, according to a new report. Data released July 27 by the Illinois Department of Employment Security, or IDES, reveals Illinois’ jobs growth from June 2016 to June 2017 was 0.9 percent, compared with a national average of 1.5 percent.
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Are they retarded? Here is a group of George Soros funded protestors, celebrating the republican failure to repeal Obamacare, with scatter brained dancing and high fives. These people are literally celebrating a program that is designed to bankrupt them.
As Foxconn promises to bring 10s of thousands of jobs to Wisconsin amid billions of dollars of investment in new plants, one wonders what is going on in China that makes this economic (aside from the $3 billion 'incentives')...
Perhaps this...
Statista's Isabel von Kessel writes that in 2016, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) in China registered 1.8 million labor disputes – an increase of almost 118 percent compared to the previous year.
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