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The Top Lookah Dab Pens for Flavor and Efficiency

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Expense Tracking Software

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Streamline Your Finances with an Efficient Invoice Management System

In today's fast-paced business environment, managing expenses and invoices effectively is crucial for any organization. The right invoice management system simplifies tracking, recording, and reimbursing expenses, reducing manual efforts and human error. It not only helps in organizing financial data but also enhances overall transparency in your operations. With the right tools, like expense tracking software,…

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Hydrotherapy: A Holistic Approach for Dogs with Skin Issues — The Pets Workshop

Posted by The Pets Workshop on September 19, 2024 at 1:13am 0 Comments

Dogs with sensitive skin require special care to keep them comfortable and healthy. For these pets, a combination of tailored dog spa Singapore treatments can make all the difference in their well-being. Sensitive skin often reacts to common grooming products, harsh chemicals, or even the…

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Discover Diverse Indian Landscapes with Tailored Tour Packages

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With 2020 near, Trump finds good economy is hard to deliver

With 2020 near, Trump finds good economy is hard to deliver

Friday brought some good economic news for President Donald Trump, 136,000 new jobs and a new low in unemployment at 3.5 percent in September. Those are numbers he can point to in his reelection campaign.To get more economy news, you can visit shine news official website.

But two-plus years into Trump’s presidency, there's also a set of numbers that indicate some long-standing, problematic trends remain. And as the 2020 campaign begins those data points serve as a reminder that deeper economic change, the kind he promised in 2016, is hard to deliver.

Start with the overall state of the economy and who’s winning and losing in it. Yes, incomes are up and unemployment is down, but Census data released in September show income inequality not only persists, but it is also growing – even through the good economic times.The Census data showed that the Gini Index, a measure of income inequality climbed to .485 in 2018 in the annual American Community Survey, up from .482. In the Gini, 0 equals perfect income equality and 1 equals perfect inequality and this year’s number represents a new high in the ACS data.

But the truth about that figure is it has been growing fairly steadily since the 1960s. The drift upward is simply not an easy trend to turn around. Changes in the job market and the structure of the U.S. economy in that time have led to a loss of middle-income jobs that propped up the middle class.

Another long-term challenge exists in Manufacturing jobs, a key economic number that Trump promised to revive to levels not seen in decades. There's been some positive movement, the jobs in manufacturing are up by about 500,000 since 2016 to about 12.8 million positions. But that number is far below the millions of new manufacturing jobs that the president to create and analyses show the sector is now contracting.Even with the growth during Trump's time in office, the number of manufacturing jobs is not back to where it was in 2008 and it is still far behind where the number was in September of 2000 when there were 17.2 million manufacturing jobs in the United States.

And the truth is, this trend goes back decades. Manufacturing jobs are down 30 percent since 1980. Automation and greater factory efficiency has made this trend difficult too slow.

What about coal mining jobs? Miners were a big constituency for Trump in 2016. Again, there are some small signs of improvement here. Coal mining jobs are up slightly since Trump took office, but by a very small amount – only about 2,500 positions since January of 2017. And, in the broader view, the 53,300 people employed in coal mining today is still down sharply from the 89,300 people who worked as miners back in September of 2011.
That’s a drop of about 40 percent in coal mining jobs since then. And that decline is being driven by a range of factors, including alternative sources for power generation such as wind, solar and, of course, natural gas.

The decline in those jobs is not a sudden story either; it has deep roots. Back in 1990, more than 130,000 people worked in coal mining.

And in the heartland, where Trump won by large margins in rural areas with promises of better deals for those in agriculture, there are also long-term trends that are hitting family farms especially hard, forcing many out of business.

This week U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue acknowledged the issue and told reporters that it's getting harder for dairy farmers to make it with smaller herds. "In America, the big get bigger and the small go out," Perdue said. "I don't think in America we, for any small business, we have a guaranteed income or guaranteed profitability."

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