March 6, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, lynched1 said: What was that participation rate in February? Up 0.1% to 62.3%
March 6, 20223 yr 25 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: Up 0.1% to 62.3% I should have been more specific. Versus 2019. Google is my friend. 63.6% 64.4% in 2010 None of this even considers the influx of the unskilled.
March 7, 20223 yr Author #winning Quote Biden's Approval Rating Soars after SOTU Speech In politics, a week is a long time. Have we mentioned that before? We forget. Anyway, a national Marist poll last month had Joe Biden's approval rating at 39%. A new poll from the same folks, using the same methodology, now has Biden at 47%. Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, said: "This is an unusual bounce. It gets him back to where he was pre-Afghanistan." Presidents sometimes get a bounce from the SOTU speech, but a bounce of more than 4 points has happened only six times in the past 45 years. What's happened since early February? Well, there was the State of the Union speech and a war in the Ukraine to which Biden has responded firmly, getting most of the world on his side. People noticed. How Biden handled Ukraine isn't the only item pulling him up, although jumping from 34% to 52% on how he is dealing with the Ukraine-Russian situation doesn't hurt. Now 55% approve of how he is handled the pandemic, up from 47% a month ago. If this trend continues for a few more months, it will certainly be good news for the Democrats. Some of the crosstabs are interesting. One of the questions was about whether Biden's handling of the Ukraine crisis has been (1) too cautious, (2) just right or (3) too aggressive. Only 16% of Democrats think it has been too cautious but 73% of Republicans think so. Republicans apparently want Biden to sock it to Vladimir Putin, despite what the party's unofficial leader wants. More precisely, 72% of 2020 Trump voters think Biden is too cautious. For every demographic across the board, 40-60% think what the President is doing is about right and in no demographic do more than 10% of the people think he has been too aggressive. What is somewhat surprising is that everyone is very sure or his or her view: in no demographic is "unsure" above 8%. For such complicated material—and on foreign policy to boot—we would have expected more "don't know" responses. Also interesting is that 70-85% of every demographic is worried about Russian cyberattacks on the U.S. White college-educated women are the most scared at 86%. Non-whites and people in small cities are the least scared at 71%. The numbers of people worrying about a broader war in Europe are similar. Support for economic sanctions is very high, ranging for 76% for people making less than $50,000 to 93% among white college-educated women and 95% among white college-educated men. Support among those who aren't as well heeled is softer presumably because they expect there to be blowback and they know they will not be able to weather the effects of, say, sharply increased gas prices, easily. Finally, one of the biggest partisan gaps is on the question of whether Biden's actions have strengthened or weakened the U.S. role on the world stage. There 85% of Biden voters say the president has strengthened it and 95% of Trump voters say he has weakened it. (V)
March 7, 20223 yr On 3/5/2022 at 10:51 PM, DaEagles4Life said: ALL MACHINES I assume two things... 1. He meant voting machines. 2. He's a freaking lunatic. On 3/6/2022 at 10:19 AM, mr_hunt said: Shocking that all the people started going back to work when the checks stopped and businesses started getting back to pre-Covid levels of employment. I mean, I don't blame him for gas prices soaring, but I'm also not giving him credit for something that would have happened even if Helen Keller was president.
March 7, 20223 yr 13 minutes ago, Outlaw said: Shocking that all the people started going back to work when the checks stopped and businesses started getting back to pre-Covid levels of employment. I mean, I don't blame him for gas prices soaring, but I'm also not giving him credit for something that would have happened even if Helen Keller was president. If I didn't see the stats I wouldn't have believed it, but there really wasn't a measurable difference in when people returned to work when contrasting areas that ended benefits sooner vs those that did so later. The job market did a lot of reshuffling it seems.
March 7, 20223 yr Author 15 minutes ago, Outlaw said: Shocking that all the people started going back to work when the checks stopped and businesses started getting back to pre-Covid levels of employment. I mean, I don't blame him for gas prices soaring, but I'm also not giving him credit for something that would have happened even if Helen Keller was president. I believe they've already gained back the total number of jobs lost during the pandemic and are now moving past it. So, even if you lump it together with Trump, it's s still a net-positive. If nothing else, Biden certainly deserves credit for the rapidity of the recoevery.
March 7, 20223 yr Just now, JohnSnowsHair said: If I didn't see the stats I wouldn't have believed it, but there really wasn't a measurable difference in when people returned to work when contrasting areas that ended benefits sooner vs those that did so later. The job market did a lot of reshuffling it seems. I own a retained executive search and leadership consulting firm, and this is hands down the craziest job market I've ever been involved in especially at the VP and C levels. I definitely think it's more business getting "back to normal" than it was benefits checks ending.
March 7, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: I believe they've already gained back the total number of jobs lost during the pandemic and are now moving past it. So, even if you lump it together with Trump, it's s still a net-positive. If nothing else, Biden certainly deserves credit for the rapidity of the recoevery. I don't believe the oval office mattered much in the labor market correcting itself. A lot changed over the past two years in terms of people's priorities, what they love about a job, etc. Companies also had to start incentivizing people more than ever to return to work. So many factors involved, just like with oil prices.
March 7, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: I believe they've already gained back the total number of jobs lost during the pandemic and are now moving past it. So, even if you lump it together with Trump, it's s still a net-positive. If nothing else, Biden certainly deserves credit for the rapidity of the recoevery. There's certainly plenty of truth that when you have an economy that tanks, climbing back tends to happen very quickly relative to typical growth. That said, Biden taking the pandemic seriously and doing the hard work on the logistical side of getting shots in arms helped a lot. Delta and Omicron really stole whatever political capital he probably deserved for this, but either way his response probably helped economically.
March 7, 20223 yr 6 minutes ago, Outlaw said: I own a retained executive search and leadership consulting firm, and this is hands down the craziest job market I've ever been involved in especially at the VP and C levels. I definitely think it's more business getting "back to normal" than it was benefits checks ending. Your first name isn't Todd is it?
March 8, 20223 yr Inflation out of control, price of gas is going to double, great timing for this: What's 2.6 billion scattered around the world to promote gender equity. Sure it will really go a long way in Muslim countries. DC swamp creatures belong in prison. Simple as.
March 8, 20223 yr 19 hours ago, Outlaw said: I own a retained executive search and leadership consulting firm, and this is hands down the craziest job market I've ever been involved in especially at the VP and C levels. I definitely think it's more business getting "back to normal" than it was benefits checks ending.
March 9, 20223 yr 7 hours ago, Kz! said: Inflation out of control, price of gas is going to double, great timing for this: What's 2.6 billion scattered around the world to promote gender equity. Sure it will really go a long way in Muslim countries. DC swamp creatures belong in prison. Simple as. Gender equity isn’t just going with your wife to a Hanson concert, Kz
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