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Posted 03 July 2018 - 05:48 AM

ISM DATA – “Comments from the panel reflect continued expanding business strength. Demand remains strong, with the New Orders Index at 60 percent or above for the 14th straight month, and the Customers’ Inventories Index remaining low. The Backlog of Orders Index continued to expand, reading at 60 percent of higher for the third consecutive month. Consumption, described as production and employment, continues to expand in spite of labor, skill and material shortages.

 

What does this mean in blue collar language?  Short term: OVERTIME pay folks…. maximum earnings possibilities as demand for factory and manufacturing has all employment working maximum production shifts. Long term: upward wage pressure, jobs, jobs, jobs. 

 

Inventory backlogs, “supply chain issues” equals not enough drivers and haulers to keep up with production shipment demand. Thirst for raw materials.  “Supplier labor issues”, sources of raw materials and ancillary origination parts are having a hard time staffing up for the demand.   Yup, more upward blue collar wage pressure.  “Transportation difficulties“, again, Truckers and shippers in high demand. 

 

 

 

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Posted 30 July 2018 - 04:08 AM

The Booming Economy 

 

United States economy grew at the rate of 4.1 percent 

 the trade deficit has dropped by more than $50 billion 

since I was elected, we’ve created approximately $7 trillion of new wealth.

 

The year before I came into office, private business investment grew at only 1.8 percent. Last year, it jumped to 6.3 percent. And this year, it’s growing at 9.4 percent. 

When I came into office, 1.5 million fewer prime-age Americans were working than eight years before. We had lost almost 200,000 manufacturing jobs under the previous administration. 

 

We have added 3.7 million new jobs since the election 

New unemployment claims have recently achieved their lowest level in almost half a century. African American unemployment is the best it’s ever been in the history of our country. The Hispanic unemployment rate has reached the lowest level, likewise, in history. The Asian unemployment rate has recently reached the lowest level, again likewise, in history. Women unemployment rate recently reached the lowest level in 65 years. 

 

More than 3.5 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps. 

Ninety-five percent of American manufacturers are optimistic about their company’s outlook. And that’s the highest level, also, in history. 

Manufacturing wages are expected to rise at the fastest rate in over 17 years. Business and consumer confidence has reached historic highs.

So far this year, American exports are up nearly 20 percent.

 

 

 https://theconservat...on-the-economy/

 


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Posted 07 August 2018 - 05:11 PM

December 2017 

 

Absolute Travesty’: Black Lawmakers Slam GOP Tax Overhaul  

 

https://newsone.com/...p-tax-overhaul/

 

 

 

August 2018 

 

This is what a booming economy feels like  

 

 

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Posted 16 August 2018 - 06:47 AM

Trump is reversing income inequality. 

 

“recent wage growth ... at the lower end of the wage scale has been stronger” than among those higher paid. 

 

job growth has been greatest among “goods-producing workers and the least-educated workers.”

 

 in the 1998-2001 period of economic growth, income gains were concentrated at the top of the economic spectrum  

 

 

 

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Posted 17 August 2018 - 07:26 AM

Walmart Booms!  The middle class prospers and spends at Walmart.  

 

Walmart executives believe that the economy is the best for their customers in decades, 

 

 

 

 

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Posted 17 October 2018 - 06:27 PM

Largest Truck Company Predicts 20 Percent Wage Raise by End 2019 

 

Since early 2017, “we’ve had to increase wages [by 10 percent and] we anticipate next year will be similar to what this year was,” company President Nicholas Hobbs told a group of Wall Street investment analysts on Oct. 14.

 

The pre-inflation pay raise of roughly 20 percent for truckers’ follows last month’s decision by Amazon to offer a $15 per hour starting wage to all of its warehouse workers, and it raises the pressure on the many CEOs and investors who have fiercely resisted wage hikes in President Donald Trump’s go-go economy.

 

Trump’s low-immigration/high-wage “Hire American” policy is forcing reluctant CEOs to compete for willing American workers because Trump has rejected corporate pleas for more immigrant blue-collar and white-collar workers. For example, Trump has drastically lowered the inflow of refugees, which previously had provided trucking companies with many new workers willing to work at low wages. 

 

 

 

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Posted 17 March 2019 - 05:32 AM

 The JOLTS report — Janet Yellen's favorite labor market indicator — for the month of January showed an unprecedented surge in job openings across most categories at the start of 2019 to an all time high 7.581 million, smashing expectations of a 7.225 million print.    https://www.american..._its_about.html

 

 

The tally of available jobs now outnumbers the unemployed by roughly 1 million. Openings began to outpace the unemployed last spring, for the first time in the 18 years the data has been tracked.

 

 

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