Showing posts with label Job Creator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Job Creator. Show all posts

Friday, October 7, 2011

Barack Obama: The Jobs President

It is a human travesty that I have not gotten to talk about politics yet on The Collective. Politics represents one of the three major pillars in my life (the other two being sports and food). Since The Collective has done an admirable job covering the first two, I decided to complete the triumphant. This will not be a regular occurrence because many times political blogs digress into snarky, annoying, and whining forums for people who would rather prognosticate than work towards solutions. That being said, I do want to occasionally touch on critically important political issues and debates as they come up.
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The first issue I decided to discuss is jobs, and more specifically, how our President's administration has fared in regards to creating and saving them. This issue is especially poignant to most of our readers because they are young, recent college graduates, looking to find their way into the job market. When looking at the job market it is hard not to be pessimistic. The recent labor department employment numbers show that despite the economy adding 103,000 jobs, the unemployment rate is still staying at a stubbornly high number of 9.1%. This number has been above 8% for over a year, and should remain high for the foreseeable future. At this moment many of you are probably wondering how these dismal numbers translate into a post about our President being the ultimate jobs chief executive. Let me tell you why.

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