Palmetto State’s Labor Participation Still Lagging
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Let’s see, a state that relies heavily on beach tourism has a drop in labor participation when the weather turns cold….like every year since the statistic has been followed. Yawn. Wonder what new stories are over at The Nerve?
Obama told us that the warm weather hurt the economy this winter? Which is it?
Obama is a weak leader who is always on vaction playing golf or Obama is an all-powerful dictator who controls everything, right down to SC’s labor precipitation? Yawn.
Which is it, dipshit?
Is labor participation rate down because of fewer teen pregos – you know – going into labor?
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So let’s see, Bush took office it was 67. Bush left office it was 65. Now it’s 63. Seems like a long term trend to me. Those lazy high school kids. School’s for fools.
Obama has planned in the past to explode a nuclear bomb in Charleston Harbor, everyone upstate knows this.
I’m not going in to all the details but the labor participation rate
(LPR) has been calculated at the state level since 1976. As women entered the labor force it rose to 67.0%. As the baby boomers aged, life spans increased and retirees moved in, the LPR has more or less declined until February 2014 to 58.0%. Since then the LPR has risen to 59.5% in May 2015 then level ed out at 59.0%.
South Carolina has the second highest United Van Lines 2015 survey move in ratio. 63% of all South Carolina movers are moving in to the State. 33% of those moving in are for retirement, while only 7% of a smaller group moving out are for retirement. With those numbers it is understandable that South Carolina’s LPR would decline. See interactive map.
http://www.unitedvanlines.com/about-united/news/movers-study-2015
At SC Dept. Employment and Workforce
http://www.sces.org/
click the “South Carolina’s Employment Situation – November 2015 under “News & Information” at the right.
SC DEW’s numbers are bullshit. That’s a fact. Anybody who believes otherwise is a lemming.
Those are the same numbers that fits is quoting for the Labor Participation Rate. The numbers SCDEW and the Bureau of Labor Statistics that fits and I used came from this same file.
http://www.bls.gov/lau/ststdsadata.txt
I know that the BLS data matches SCDEW. I imported the pertinent months into Excel and checked the calculations, because I do my own calculations.
You can also get some of the data from this link. You have to do your own subtraction.
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST450000000000006?data_tool=XGtable
So if you don’t believe SCDEW, then you can’t believe the Fits numbers either. The errors would pile up if faked and would cause a scandle. I know their are other measures of unemployment (U6), but not available at the state level. These numbers are still good for comparison.
Saying they are bullshit is not a logical statement, unless you can back up your statement. It would be hypocritical to believe the bad numbers and not the good. They came from the same source.
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