Government employees swear an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.
Intelligence workers are no different …
And yet former CIA counterterrorism officer and former senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kiriakou writes:
Authored by Peter Schiff via Euro Pacific Capital,
Via MauldinEconomics.com,
I’ve written about this before, but there are 10 million American males between the age of 24 and 64 who have literally dropped out of the workforce. It means that they have given up on finding a job or are simply not looking.
But, focusing on just one subset among those who are 24–64, we see that white working-class males’ labor force participation rate has dropped to 59%.
Authored by former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner viaThe Hill.com,
My grandmother used to say, “You can put truth in the river five days after a lie; truth is gone catch up.”
Well, here’s the truth: The working men and women of this country are working more jobs and more hours, and they’re still barely hanging on. Beneath those fingertips, they can feel that middle-class dream – the American dream – slipping right away from them. It’s time for President Trump to do something about it.
It appears that the "animal spirits" unleashed by President Trump are not contained to the stock market: according to the BLS, one of the most notable observations to emerge from the February (and January) jobs reports is that the number of Americans no longer in the labor force plunged since December, declining by 736,000 in January (to a modest extent due to a data revision) and a further 176,000 in February. The combined two-month addition of 912,000 was the biggest drop in the "not in labor force" series on record.