They Don’t Talk About Under Employment Rising

Gallup Daily tracking finds that 20.3% of the U.S. workforce was underemployed in March -- a slight uptick from the relatively flat January and February numbers. These results are based on March interviews with more than 20,000 adults in the U.S. workforce, aged 18 and older. Gallup classifies respondents as underemployed if they are unemployed or working part-time but wanting full-time work. Gallup employment data are not seasonally adjusted.

A rise in the percentage of part-timers wanting to work full time (from 9.2% to 9.9%) is responsible for the March increase in underemployment. Unemployment saw a slight, but insignificant, decline in March.

Despite the Obama administration's March 16 announcement that unemployment would remain high or increase in coming months, the underemployed in March became neither more nor less hopeful about finding work soon. Six in 10 underemployed Americans are not hopeful they will find work or move from part-time to full-time work in the next four weeks. That translates to 12% of the workforce that is both underemployed and not hopeful they will find their desired amount of work. The lack of change suggests that underemployed Americans anticipated long-term difficulties in finding work well before the administration's formal announcement was made.

As unemployed Americans find part-time, temporary, and seasonal work, the official unemployment rate could decline. However, this does not necessarily mean more Americans are working at their desired capacity. It will continue to be important to track underemployment -- to shed light on the true state of the U.S. workforce, and the millions of Americans who are searching for full-time employment.

Socialist Barack Hussein Obama and the MSM are touting the slight improvement in March’s employment figures.  A large portion of the rise in employment is attributable to the part time jobs for the Census.  Those people will be unemployed again in June or July when the Census is complete.

With Election 2010 we can start fixing these horrendous unemployment figures.  Nothing Obama and the Democrats have done has helped improve employment at all.  The “stimulus” bill was never to improve the employment of Americans without jobs.  You will see Obama spending the “stimulus” money this fall to elect socialist Democrats to Congress.  Our tax dollars will be used to promote Obama’s socialist agenda in the 2010 Elections.

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