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Experts gave varying explanations after the Department of Labor reported a meager April jobs report that fell far short of predictions.
“The disappointing jobs report makes it clear that paying people not to work is dampening what should be a stronger jobs market,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce chief policy officer Neil Bradley said in a statement Friday morning.
The Biden administration said the virus may still scare unemployed workers out of looking for work and continued school closures may explain why the female unemployment rate has stayed high.
Experts gave varying explanations after the Department of Labor reported a meager April jobs report that fell far short of predictions.
As Pericles said, “Just because you don’t take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Nothing is more illustrative of the noble Athenian’s point than the American Census. The count is made, and you become part of a political calculus. In a parliamentary democracy, that is expected.
Since 1790, every ten years the United States has conducted a headcount. Unlike much of what the government does these days, there is actually a constitutional basis for the Census. Article I Section 2 empowers Congress to conduct a census in “such a manner as they shall by Law direct.” That law is codified as Title 13 of the US Code. Of course, the implementation of any law is subject to interpretation by federal judges, some of whom have legislated –
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During his address to Congress Wednesday, President Joe Biden made a statement that was immediately acknowledged by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) as alarmingly radical. We the People is the government, the leader of the Republic told the legislative branch of government and the American people, signaling an intent to embrace the notion that the federal government should become a much more dominant cultural and economic force in American’s lives because it is what they are the people.
“No Joe, you seriously misunderstand the Constitution,” the Senator wrote. “’We the People’ is not the government. ‘We the People’ is the people who are in charge of the government, whose liberty Biden is stripping away.”
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