depth. the workforce parties ration rate is 62.9%. this is stubbornly low, the people who could be working who weren t working. this should be in the high 60s and it s in the low 60s. it s been that way for a few years. this is really important for people to think about. the average hourly wage is now $26.19. so compare that to what you earn and understand that that is up 2.5% from last year. this is important. is your wage up 2.5% from last year? have you done better than that? you re doing better than the average. if you re not getting the 2.5% raise, you re doing a little less than the average. but the idea that wages are going up means that we ve finally soaked up some of the access that came from the recession and wages are starting to creep up. we ve seen that for a year, chris. since you re hundreds of miles away, it s safe for me to ask you it s better number because of trump? okay. just kidding.
health care. this was stable, construction, manufacturing, retail. retail has been losing a lot of jobs so it s good to see it was a little bit same. important number here, 62.9, workforce participation rate. this should be in the high 60s. some people turned away. they decided they re not getting a job. that s why that number is low. $26.19, average hourly earnings, up 2.5% compared to a year ago. that s good. that shows we re soaking up some of the extra labor. here s a problem, maybe not for all of you, but $46.22 for a barrel of oil. it was under $44 overnight. it s a problem because when it s under sort of $ 55, we don t produce as much oil in the united states. i do want to give you a point of reference, though, going back to 2012, take a look at the price of oil. it dropped down in 2015, much lower about a year ago. we re hanging around this level. oil here, needs to be about here for american oil jobs to be present. i want to make sense of all of this with a guy who knows more
this is a very, very popular sector. it doesn t necessarily mean doctors and nurses, it could mean health care who earn less money per year. retail and construction, little change. 62.9% is the percentage of people who could be working. it s been in the 60s for a long time. it s been edging down for a few years. that s a bit of a problem. some people are just not going to work, they re not looking for work. $26.19 is the average hourly earning in the united states. that s been going up for over a year. it s up 2.5%. are you making 2.5% more than you did last year? if you are making it, you re okay. that is a synopsis of the jobs picture for april 2017.
democrats to the nation for the first time. and tad, while new hampshire is looking fantastic for your candidate, if you pop it up, it says this is the questions between september 17th and 23rd with the cnn and wmur poll, and sanders is smoking her, and 46 to 30 for her, but that is new hampshire. and if you go elsewhere like florida, ohio, pennsylvania and otherwise known as the whop erp, or insert is any noun you want there, and the numbers will flip, and look at how much higher hillary clinton s numbers are, 46% to 19%, and then 40/19 and 36/19, in florida, ohio and pennsylvania respectively. and what do you say? well, i worked for walter mondale and we had problems are the there in the problems
felonies or if he had been known to be committed for psychiatric care, mental health care, let s say. apparently neither of those two occurred. so he was able to this year purchase both guns legally. he said that he did he put a deposit down, i m quoting him. i put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19. the church shooting in charleston happened on 6/17 and he indicated the charleston shooting was the trigger for him. what do you make of that? he indicated many things. it sounds like he had very serious mental health issues and anger management problems and extreme narcissism and other indicators going back many years. he had already been employed and fired from several tv stations here in the u.s. it is not something that developed overnight. it developed over a long period of time. he, himself, cited that as one