It’s been a good run, but somewhere between hurricanes and Donald Trump actively threatening tariffs or war every couple of days, payroll job growth is off.
Comparison of coal mining to national parks jobs
US president Donald Trump has talked at length about restoring US coal mining jobs despite the failure of the industry as a whole due to the transition to renewables. On the chopping block? Funding for the national parks service. Hat tip to journalist Matt Yglesias for dipping into the St. Louis Federal Reserve’s FRED database to compare trends in coal …
Private sector jobs after Obamacare
As the Republican Party in America presses toward radically rewriting the signature policy achievement of the Obama Administration, the battle cry has been that the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) cost American jobs. The charts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics do not necessarily reflect that claim.