from 3.9% in November,
and the US economy added 199,000 jobs, according to the latest monthly data from the BLS. down to 3.7%
again for america under democrat administration
This is very helpful for America!
Thanks Joe! 
@Midnight1
hes a troll in the penalty box there are just over 50 of his threads in there last i checked
hes despised by prolly close to 95% of everybody
@Midnight1 "sky is falling"
No Chicken Little here bud, Am I not allowed to voice my opinion on what I believe on a politics forum?
@KellyM_1964 "He's a troll"
Last I checked COVERS WAS A "GAMBLING FORUM"! in which include 99% of my posts talk about gambling unlike yours and your cohorts
@Midnight1
Why be so dismissive of his point when it is obviously true? Why not dispute the reasons and what it means, instead; they can be questioned. What cannot be questioned is whether or not it is true or not -- because it is true and is affecting women more. And overall these folks earn less. For example:
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics(LEHD), we created a way to measure multiple jobholding that reveals a trend not previously documented by other research: the percentage of U.S. workers who hold more than one job has been increasing during the past 20 years.
Multiple jobholding has become more prevalent in the U.S. economy over the past two decades.
Over the entire 22-year time period from the second quarter of 1996 to the first quarter of 2018, the multiple jobholding rate has averaged 7.2% of all employed individuals, according to the LEHD data.
Women hold multiple jobs at a higher rate than men and the rate has increased in the last 20 years.
In the first quarter of 2018, 9.1% of women and 6.6% of men were working more than one job.
For men, the trend of multiple jobholding has been relatively flat over the last 20 years, rising by 0.3 percentage points from 6.3% to 6.6%.
However, the multiple jobholding rate for women has increased by 1.6 percentage points during the same period, from 7.5% to 9.1%.
Individuals who are not multiple jobholders earned, on average, $15,750 from their full-quarter job in the first quarter of 2018. Full-quarter jobs are long-lasting, stable jobs that exist in the previous quarter, the current quarter and the following quarter.
Multiple jobholders earn less.
Individuals with full-quarter jobs who are multiple jobholders earned an average $9,770 from their primary job in the first quarter of 2018 and an average $3,780 from all secondary jobs during that same quarter for a total of $13,550 from all jobs.
@Midnight1
That was a report from two years ago.
Now you have this study from this year. So, you cannot just dismiss it and say it has always been the case when it is on the rise. So, I would question more why that is and what it really means. That is what needs to be addressed.
The latest study:
The number of Americans working two or more jobs has reached its highest level since the pandemic’s start, new federal data show, a trend that suggests more of us are feeling inflation’s pinch.
Nearly 8.4 million people held multiple jobs in October, the Labor Department reported Friday. They represent 5.2% of the workforce, the largest share of moonlighters since January 2020.
Employment statistics show that 5.9% of women worked multiple jobs in October, compared with 4.7% of men. Roughly 5 million Americans held one full-time and one part-time job. Nearly 2 million held two part-time gigs. Another 1.1 million said they held jobs where the hours varied. Fewer than 400,000 held two full-time jobs.
(AP) —
Climate-altering pollution from greenhouse gases declined by nearly 2% in the United States in 2023, even as the economy expanded at a faster clip, a new report finds. The decline, while “a step in the right direction,'' is still below the rate needed to meet President Joe Biden's pledge to cut U.S. emissions in half by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, said a report Wednesday from the Rhodium Group, an independent research firm. “Absent other changes,? the U.S. is on track to cut greenhouse gas emissions by about 40% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade, said Ben King, associate director at Rhodium and lead author of the study. Emissions are down 17.2% from 2005.
Biden and congressional Democrats passed the most
sweeping climate law in U.S. history in 2022, but
effects of the law, known as the Inflation Reduction Act,
are just beginning to be felt and are unlikely to have
a significant impact on emissions for a few years.
US wholesale inflation closes out 2023 with 1% annual rate in December
New York CNN —
US producer prices fell in December for the third consecutive month, bringing a closely watched gauge of inflation to a rate more in line with pre-pandemic times.
Biden administration proposes rule that could save consumers $3.5 billion a year in bank fees 
New York CNN —
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday said it is proposing a rule that would curb excessive overdraft fees charged to customers of large banks and credit unions, potentially saving consumers as much as $3.5 billion a year.
The rule would only apply to banks and credit unions with at least $10 billion in assets, which account for the largest share of deposit account customers in the United States. Too often, the consumer watchdog agency has noted, bank customers are surprised by overdraft fees and those who can least afford them are charged the most frequently.
“Today, we are proposing rules to close a longstanding loophole that allowed many large banks to transform overdraft into a massive junk fee harvesting machine,” said CFPB director Rohit Chopra.
BofA used to make my CC payments due on Sundays and bank holiday Mondays. The dates were always 3-4 days apart instead of the same day or next day every month. A couple times I scheduled the payment to be made on the date due which was usually a Sunday. Bank would process my payments on a Monday and claim I was late. When I called, the bank said the payment was made Monday because that's when the payment processing department was open. They waived the first late fee and I cancelled my card right after that. I went back and checked the previous year and found that 7 of the 12 months the payments were due on a Sunday or bank holiday Monday. The dates would range from the 6th-10th every time so they made sure to hit a Sunday. Pretty sure that this was intentional as all my other CC would be due on the 10th-11th every month.
Screw big banks. With the technology we have today, we don't need big banks. They should be able to process deposits the same day, not 2-3 days later.
Also, don't write checks that your account can't cash. Pretty simple.
Thanks for the copy paste. Have any of your own thoughts, or just trying rack up posts fubduh? Pretty sure 93% of your posts are copy paste with 0 thoughts of your own.
CFPB has found that customers “are typically charged $35 for an overdraft loan, even though the majority of consumers’ debit card overdrafts are for less than $26, and are repaid within three days.”
What’s more, the agency estimates that roughly 23 million households a year pay overdraft fees and that the proposed rule could save each household $150 a year.
s&p500 just hit a new historic record high
@KellyM_1964
I saw that! 
The DOW too!
NASDAQ doing very well too!
@Zeus4par
DOW climbs over 38,000 for the first time ever!! 
It's been a long road since the market crashed during the trump regime.
@fubah2
Let's hear it trumpers "Let's Go Brandon","Let's Go Brandon".
Over 38 fuckin thousand for the DOW,highest it's ever been.Over 81 million people voted for him,most votes ever for a U.S. presidential candidate.Brandon's breaking records,and stinky's crying about not having "absolute immunity" cause he can't defend himself against his 91 indictments.
Both sides are funny on the markets, Trump fans on here were bragging about how pro-business he is and how the markets are so strong as if either party moves the markets, then when Covid hit and the markets went down Trump gets blamed, then when Biden took over and the markets were lower the Trump fans blamed liberal agendas and that the markets were so strong during Trump. Now the markets are back to highs and Biden gets credit. Biden cant get credit for eating all his wheaties let alone the stock market.
Neither president has much of an impact on the markets, the mover of the markets is the FED and economic outliers, so shocks to the market are the movers in positive and negative waves. This move to highs is not about Biden or against Trump it is the market front running the FED being finished with rate hikes and the reality that rates will come down versus keep going up. Why either group tries to make the markets a partisan lollypop is beyond me, it has no truth to it and Biden does not deserve any more credit than Trump did, but one thing IS different between the two. Trump LIVED in ZIRP, rates were never this high at any point during his term and the markets were artificially on a sugar high for all of his term where a large portion of Biden's term was with accelerating rates not seen since the 1970s. But it shows you that the markets are completely ruled by rates, the mere concept of rates not going higher created this move and it did so quite quickly.
Public confidence lags behind economic improvements in 2023 from low unemployment, rising wages, shrinking inflation, GDP growth and economy outperforming G7 nations. Now Americans are suddenly upbeat about US. economy according to Wall street journal. 2024 election might resemble 2012 election?
@thirdperson
What will hamper getting the real deal message out to Americans is partisan-conservative-media, like FOX NEWS. They won't give it any coverage, thus keeping very large swaths of America completely ignorant to the truth but still vulnerable to lies they hear from RW media and the fascist/sex-offender.
@MrWhatsItToYa
Several months ago I balanced my portfolios to a near 50 - 50 split between the S & P 500 and the DOW. I now have 6 $$$ figures in each, and this turnaround over the past few months is rather pleasing.
Established in 1995,
@Zeus4par
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