The good news is that the economy added about 268,000 new jobs. The bad news is that 25 percent (62,000) were from McDonald’s. That’s honorable and respectable work, of course. But consider this: Had the Obama administration not granted McD’s a waiver from having to abide by the law, it might not have added all those workers. And if the company had added the jobs anyway, they all would have been jobs without health insurance since the company was going to stop providing benefits without the waiver.
After the previous jobs report, I saw an article about how employment for those, especially men, over 45 was lagging. I wonder if this reluctance to hire the older workers is driven by the fear of healthcare costs associated?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhy do you think they got the waiver in the first place?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuseobama- "Yeah, we'll give a waiver as long as you hire some people so we can get our job numbers up"
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNone of the job growth in April was from McDonald's big hiring. The survey week for the April employment report was April 10 to 16. McDonald's "National Hiring Day" was April 19. That will show up in the May report.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseFrom what I'm reading, 1/4 of the jobs were the burger flippers and the other 3/4 were 'assumed' based on historical figures from this time of year.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseBurger flipping jobs + Democrat in White House = Recovery
Burger flipping jobs + Republican in White House = Jobless Recovery
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI understand it's being reported thay those McDonald's jobs were added *after the period* reported on for the additions to non-farm payrolls...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd this is with politicians all over the country trying to destroy McDonald's.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'm telling you, the Ronald McDonald picture reminds me of "Chuckie" that evil doll in the movies...
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWell, Duh. Of course the healthcare waiver is responsible. I knew that the moment I heard that McDonald's was having its big hiring day. Always follow the money.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI've argued for a while that Republicans in Congress should push a Universal Waiver bill: anyone who asks for a waiver gets it. The Democrats would have a hard time arguing that waivers are bad after they've issued so many of them. This would be easier to sell than a defunding measure, and yet would have the effect of defunding when everyone opted out.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThey totally make these numbers up anyway. Who care what figure they send to AP.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAs a business owner, I KNOW it is bad out there. Remember right after Obama was elected we heard "GREEN SHOOTS" constantly? Obama killed the shoots.
all the food additives in everything were first tested on rats if thy kept coming back and gorging themselves general food gen, mills, kraft added them to everything same in fast foods. why we are an obeese nation, so who should be taxed to cover health care problems that arise a consequence
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe 25% figure is meaningless, whether or not the 62,000 McD's jobs were in the appropriate time frame.
When jobs increase by 268,000, what that figure hides is, for example, something like 1,000,000 jobs lost and 1,268,000 jobs gained, against which 62,000 McD's more of an interesting tidbit than a significant fraction.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRemember back when McDonald's was a source of good part time and summer jobs for high school and college kids? We've really come a long way haven't we!
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