Never A Stable Place for Rate of Labor

          After the oh so media dramatics of a show that the government shutdown produced after their 16 day “break” one would think that people would have packed their bags and loaded their guns for the moving far north as possible, or so deemed their reactions, surprisingly enough though it was a far growth in success in the job hiring industry after the spring slowdown even after the shutdown. Figures by the Labor Department reported that the job creation n August and September has lifted the estimated monthly pace of hiring to 202,000 over the last three months. Even though this number is outstanding in itself it is not to everyone’s satisfaction time wise, commenting that it is not as early as they would have hoped for. Other comments about the addition of 204,000 nonfarms in the month of October eased tensions and fears about how much the governmental shutdown exactly impacted our economy and job market.  

          Though from recent information about the mystery behind a drop of 720,000 in the size of the labor force creating a fall in job participation percentage to 62.8, a 35 year low. With the fluctuating amount of number, rates and along with it hope never actually stabilizing to a reasonable state it seems that we ourselves are affecting what could be and what we hope to have, but isn’t. Many people seeing the obvious amount of instability the work/hiring force is bringing choose to simply stay at school or at home taking care of their children, and with that it’s no wonder that the number of retirements by the baby boom generation has brought has come to an increased rate in itself. Many are scratching their heads and spending long hours trying to come into a reasonable problem solving method to at least dwindle the amount of labor force drops, confused weather it will reverse, decline, or something else completely. 

          What ifs and should haves are floating around the vastly whirling circles in the mind of economics, politicians, and citizens alike. With the growing working age population there should be considerably more jobs today than there were before the recession. More people with less than a high school diploma are finding themselves in the unemployment fields for longer periods of time while even then those who do go to college are suffering their own battles. It has come to that day in our generation where college is no longer a simple future that many were granted, society discrimination aside, and has now become a means of survival in our modern day world. With tuitions rising and funds not coming from any means of jobs being specialized in the skill a college is offering is not most of what actually gets you into a college and therefore a job.

          Keep hopes of the job market increasing to an all time low, only then will we be satisfied and surprised.