December 2014: +252,000; 5.6%

[Sol]

I'm not one of those who blames Obama at all for the economy let alone believes he has enough power to control it. This is a decent accomplishment for the nation, and we finally have a small uptick in employment, but I hope it is still the earlier stages of a trend. We are still nowhere near pre-recession employment levels.

This may be the most misleading graph I've seen in a while.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I love this site, but I'd really appreciate if more people posted responses as to why something is horrible rather than just dropping that one line. It's far from just you Sol (and I hate calling you out because you seem to usually have really solid replies to posts), but could you please elaborate?

I don't see what I'm misleading people about. Should I have just included the last 2 years? I was trying to show optimism with recent growth in that figure finally showing consistent progress, but I figured having the comparison to pre-08 economy was relevant. The figure itself it quite common. If I wanted to voice my disapproval I would have went into the age demographics and showed how poor that number is for under 55's.

[AggregateDemand]

There's nothing inherently wrong with not participating in the labor force.

Liberals have sugar-plum-fairy fantasies about handing out subsidies to everything with a pulse. If we're going to continue the avarice of the current welfare state for seniors and unemployed youth, we need labor force participation around 75%

Work is like exercise. There are virtually no negative consequences, and the reluctance of some political factions to create opportunity is holding us all back.

[King]

If we're going to continue the avarice of the current welfare state for seniors and unemployed youth, we need labor force participation around 75%

If we had the latter, we wouldn't have the former...

[Sol]

I love this site, but I'd really appreciate if more people posted responses as to why something is horrible rather than just dropping that one line. It's far from just you Sol (and I hate calling you out because you seem to usually have really solid replies to posts), but could you please elaborate?

I don't see what I'm misleading people about. Should I have just included the last 2 years? I was trying to show optimism with recent growth in that figure finally showing consistent progress, but I figured having the comparison to pre-08 economy was relevant. The figure itself it quite common. If I wanted to voice my disapproval I would have went into the age demographics and showed how poor that number is for under 55's.

Sorry. My main beef with the graph is that it cuts out everything below 58, making it look like, at a glance, that it fell from very high to near zero when in fact it is only a few percentage points.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

I love this site, but I'd really appreciate if more people posted responses as to why something is horrible rather than just dropping that one line. It's far from just you Sol (and I hate calling you out because you seem to usually have really solid replies to posts), but could you please elaborate?

I don't see what I'm misleading people about. Should I have just included the last 2 years? I was trying to show optimism with recent growth in that figure finally showing consistent progress, but I figured having the comparison to pre-08 economy was relevant. The figure itself it quite common. If I wanted to voice my disapproval I would have went into the age demographics and showed how poor that number is for under 55's.

Sorry. My main beef with the graph is that it cuts out everything below 58, making it look like, at a glance, that it fell from very high to near zero when in fact it is only a few percentage points.

Oh I gotcha. I thought it might be a beef with a failed statistic which would have needed explaining. I totally get dimensions being used to trick most of the population, but I think people on here got it. I'll work on that for next time.