It has been way too long
since my last post. Sorry folks! But these numbers -- many just published
by Factcheck.org -- are well worth passing on to
everyone:
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All job losses during
the great recession have been erased.
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In June the economy
added 200,000+ jobs for the fifth month in a row -- 288,000 in June alone. The five month streak is the longest since
the late 1990s.
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The Unemployment rate
is now at 6.1% -- you may remember that the unemployment rate was at 10.1% at the
height of the great recession.
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Corporate profits and
stock prices continue to set record highs.
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The number of
food-stamp recipients has retreated from the record high of 2012; fewer
beneficiaries have been added under Obama than were added under George W. Bush.
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Under Obama, federal
spending has risen more slowly than the rate of inflation.
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Auto sales -- a consistently bright spot in the recovery --
heated up even more in
June. They clocked in at 17 million at
an annualized rate for the best month in eight years.
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Gallup polling found that 45 percent of
Americans were working full-time in June,
one of the highest rates since the polling company began tracking the figure.
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The government data released Thursday mirrored those results,
with the employment-to-population ratio rising to 59 percent, the highest level
since 2009.
