While we’re back to 2010 government employment levels, the percentage of govt jobs to total non-farm payroll remains at its lowest point in 10 years.
Under Rauner, the percentage of govt to total non-farm jobs has been consistently in the upper 13%. Under Quinn, it peaked at 15.5% early but dropped to 14% when he left office.
The public sector has been the last to recover from the recession because of the delay in collecting taxes. (It was also the last to be diminished for that same reason.)
- Grandson of Man - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:29 pm:
Rauner tried to run on his jobs record toward the end, mentioning the 210,000 jobs, but it was feeble and too late. He spent way too much time downing the state.
Today workers in unions are standing and victorious in Illinois, having withstood Rauner’s attacks, while he is in political ruins. Rauner’s contributed at least $95 million to politics, and it’s utterly wasted. That’s good, given that his main goal is to financially bleed out unions.
==Pat Quinn couldn’t get very far with improving jobs numbers.==
Maybe because those numbers tanked during his tenure. It wasn’t until July 2013 that his non-farm numbers were back up to where he started. And by that point, our economic recovery was seriously lagging the recovery of the country as a whole.
–While we’re back to 2010 government employment levels, the percentage of govt jobs to total non-farm payroll remains at its lowest point in 10 years.–
What’s the ratio of chicken farmers to pole dancers, if we’re doing a deep dive of irrelevancy?
Our state marketing arm Intersect Illinois keeps projecting numbers three times the size of this. I would hope they get their data from official sources like IDES, Dept of Labor etc.
I’d also like to point out that employment in and of itself is not a great indicator of the vibrancy of an economy
Wages are
It sucks to have to hold on to two jobs
To make up for where one once was
With just one.
Record Corporate profits are obfuscated with
The feast of crumbs
Thrown to us by employment numbers
In reality
Things are harder
Life is tougher
But we’re told
All is well.
Only the privileged
Or the willfully ignorant
believe things are getting better.
I see these unemployment numbers as proof
Of doubling up to make ends meet.
It would be interesting to see how many Illinoisans work two jobs to survive. And even if a sizable percentage of us have two jobs, it doesn’t affect the unemployment rate, or add to the number of Illinoisans that are employed.
I hate to challenge you, but you said only the willfully ignorant would believe things are getting better. I mean I agree with you that life is tougher, but low unemployment is better than high unemployment. More people working is better than fewer. And wages growing at a meager 3% is better than 0. Things are getting better, as they have been getting under Obama and now the orange one since the Great Recession. It’s just that they aren’t great for a great many people. And with another recession looming, even that progress may not last. Just sayin’
Fair critique and point taken Cynic
Although I didn’t say it was just the willfully ignorant
Don’t forget the privileged
Gotta get my hit in on them
But yes you are correct that things are
Getting better.
My point is that economic statistics
Are a dark art
Of obfuscation
I work Monday-Friday
In the pain, misery, and need of
My illinois community.
Yes I’m biased
Yes it makes me jaded
But it also gives me a perspective
That few on this blog ever see or hear
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
Rosa Luxemburg
- wordslinger - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:09 pm:
The number of people employed in Illinois has been climbing steadily since January 2009 and is near the all-time record.
The number of unemployed in Illinois is, right now, at the all-time low since at least 1976.
You know, a smart governor might have run on that.
- Baloneymous - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:12 pm:
If a lot of those govt jobs are union as well…
- Highland Il - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:15 pm:
The IDES press release has three names I won’t miss, Munger, Mays and Gough.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:19 pm:
Raunerism takes a turn “at the irony”…
- City Zen - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:22 pm:
While we’re back to 2010 government employment levels, the percentage of govt jobs to total non-farm payroll remains at its lowest point in 10 years.
Under Rauner, the percentage of govt to total non-farm jobs has been consistently in the upper 13%. Under Quinn, it peaked at 15.5% early but dropped to 14% when he left office.
- Not It - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:23 pm:
The public sector has been the last to recover from the recession because of the delay in collecting taxes. (It was also the last to be diminished for that same reason.)
- Grandson of Man - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:29 pm:
Rauner tried to run on his jobs record toward the end, mentioning the 210,000 jobs, but it was feeble and too late. He spent way too much time downing the state.
Today workers in unions are standing and victorious in Illinois, having withstood Rauner’s attacks, while he is in political ruins. Rauner’s contributed at least $95 million to politics, and it’s utterly wasted. That’s good, given that his main goal is to financially bleed out unions.
- Arsenal - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:29 pm:
==You know, a smart governor might have run on that.==
Pat Quinn couldn’t get very far with improving jobs numbers.
Oh, wait, you said a “smart governor”.
- PP - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:38 pm:
RaunerMENT
- City Zen - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:40 pm:
==Pat Quinn couldn’t get very far with improving jobs numbers.==
Maybe because those numbers tanked during his tenure. It wasn’t until July 2013 that his non-farm numbers were back up to where he started. And by that point, our economic recovery was seriously lagging the recovery of the country as a whole.
- wordslinger - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:44 pm:
–While we’re back to 2010 government employment levels, the percentage of govt jobs to total non-farm payroll remains at its lowest point in 10 years.–
What’s the ratio of chicken farmers to pole dancers, if we’re doing a deep dive of irrelevancy?
Illinois Non-Farm Employees:
October 2009: 5,590,000
October 2018: 6,134,000
That makes +544,000.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/SMS17000000000000001?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true
- Beacon of Hope - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:50 pm:
Our state marketing arm Intersect Illinois keeps projecting numbers three times the size of this. I would hope they get their data from official sources like IDES, Dept of Labor etc.
- Henry Francis - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:53 pm:
Since Rauner took office:
Taxes have gone up
The state debt has increased
And Madigan Is stronger
That’s basically what Bruce ran on 4 years ago. Shocking he didn’t get re-elected.
- Oswego Willy - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 12:55 pm:
This is like that in-depth op-ed Diana Rickert wrote after she left state government. As a white male, Bruce felt her skills were needed elsewhere.
- Bobby T - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:21 pm:
When do we get the Rauner “one-term governor” post-mortem?
Or the Rauner “here’s how he shoulda run for a second term?”
These will be fascinating, I suspect. We know from yesterday’s Politico article that Pritzker ran an incredibly high-tech, targeted campaign.
Rauner — what …?
- Honeybear - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:34 pm:
I’d also like to point out that employment in and of itself is not a great indicator of the vibrancy of an economy
Wages are
It sucks to have to hold on to two jobs
To make up for where one once was
With just one.
Record Corporate profits are obfuscated with
The feast of crumbs
Thrown to us by employment numbers
In reality
Things are harder
Life is tougher
But we’re told
All is well.
Only the privileged
Or the willfully ignorant
believe things are getting better.
I see these unemployment numbers as proof
Of doubling up to make ends meet.
- Stooges - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:53 pm:
It would be interesting to see how many Illinoisans work two jobs to survive. And even if a sizable percentage of us have two jobs, it doesn’t affect the unemployment rate, or add to the number of Illinoisans that are employed.
- Chicago Cynic - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 1:57 pm:
Honeybear,
I hate to challenge you, but you said only the willfully ignorant would believe things are getting better. I mean I agree with you that life is tougher, but low unemployment is better than high unemployment. More people working is better than fewer. And wages growing at a meager 3% is better than 0. Things are getting better, as they have been getting under Obama and now the orange one since the Great Recession. It’s just that they aren’t great for a great many people. And with another recession looming, even that progress may not last. Just sayin’
- Honeybear - Friday, Nov 16, 18 @ 2:24 pm:
Fair critique and point taken Cynic
Although I didn’t say it was just the willfully ignorant
Don’t forget the privileged
Gotta get my hit in on them
But yes you are correct that things are
Getting better.
My point is that economic statistics
Are a dark art
Of obfuscation
I work Monday-Friday
In the pain, misery, and need of
My illinois community.
Yes I’m biased
Yes it makes me jaded
But it also gives me a perspective
That few on this blog ever see or hear
“The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.”
Rosa Luxemburg