7/6/18: The U.S. economy adds 213,000 jobs in June. The unemployment rate ticks up to 4 percent; but this has to do with people who have not been looking for work coming off the sidelines.
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A good jobs report: Scott Pruitt out at EPA. |
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Trump
hires 480 foreign workers.
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Average weekly earnings have risen 2.7 percent in the last year.
This good news is reported in The New York Times. Also, by President Trump! “JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!” he tweets.
Sadly, unemployment claims do rise by one when Scott Pruitt gets the axe as head of the E.P.A.
Considering the fact that Trump’s man in charge of protecting the environment was the subject of thirteen investigations into unethical and possibly criminal behavior, you can see why the June jobs report was good.
Pruitt kept a lot of investigators busy.
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TRUMP’S CLUB at Mar-a-Lago is seeking permission under a special visa program to hire 61 foreign waiters and cooks for the winter season. This brings the total of foreign workers hired by Trump or his organizations since he started running for president to 480, half at Mar-a-Lago.
Because – let’s face it – Trump is a cheapskate.^^
Why not hire Americans? It’s not like Americans don’t know how to wait tables and fry burgers. Oh! You’d have to offer them higher pay!! “It’s very, very hard to get people,” Trump explained during a 2016 debate, arguing that “other hotels do the exact same thing.” It’s legal. Why not? “I take advantage of that. There’s nothing wrong with it. We have no choice [emphasis added].”
You have no choice? There’s no way you could pay more to attract American workers?
It might help if you were ready to dip deeper into your own bank account and make sure you paid workers a fair wage.
You could even offer them health insurance.
^^I do my best not to use dehumanizing language.
Originally, my post called Trump a “cheap bastard” above. I edited that later
to read “cheapskate.”
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