{"id":5394,"date":"2015-02-07T10:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T15:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2015-02-07T10:17:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T15:17:48","slug":"only-44-percent-of-u-s-adults-are-employed-for-30-or-more-hours-per-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5394","title":{"rendered":"Only 44 Percent Of U.S. Adults Are Employed For 30 Or More Hours Per Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/44-percent-u-s-adults-employed-30-hours-per-week\" target=\"_blank\">Only 44 Percent Of U.S. Adults Are Employed For 30 Or More Hours Per Week<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, says that the percentage of Americans that are employed full-time has been hovering near record lows since the end of the last recession.\u00a0 But most Americans don\u2019t realize this because the official unemployment numbers are extremely misleading.\u00a0 In fact, Clifton says that the official 5.6 percent unemployment rate is a \u201cbig lie\u201d.\u00a0 Gallup regularly tracks the percentage of U.S. adults that are employed for 30 or more hours per week, and it is currently at 44.2 percent.\u00a0 It has been hovering between 42 percent and 45 percent since the end of 2009.\u00a0 This is extremely low.\u00a0 As I discussed\u00a0<a title=\"the other day\" href=\"http:\/\/endoftheamericandream.com\/archives\/the-death-of-the-american-dream-in-22-numbers\" target=\"_blank\">the other day<\/a>, there are\u00a0<a title=\"8.69 million Americans\" href=\"http:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/fred2\/series\/UNEMPLOY\" target=\"_blank\">8.69 million Americans<\/a>\u00a0that are considered to be \u201cofficially unemployed\u201d at this point.\u00a0 But there are another\u00a0<a title=\"92.90 million Americans\" href=\"http:\/\/research.stlouisfed.org\/fred2\/series\/LNS15000000\" target=\"_blank\">92.90 million Americans<\/a>\u00a0that are considered to be \u201cnot in the labor force\u201d.\u00a0 Millions upon millions of those Americans would work if they could.\u00a0 Overall, there are 101 million U.S. adults that do not have a job right now.\u00a0 But you won\u2019t hear that number being discussed by the mainstream media, because it would make Barack Obama look really bad.<\/p>\n<p>Most Americans just assume that the economic numbers that we are being given accurately reflect reality.\u00a0 That is why it is so refreshing to have men like Jim Clifton step forward and tell the truth.\u00a0 His recent article entitled \u201c<a title=\"The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/opinion\/chairman\/181469\/big-lie-unemployment.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment<\/a>\u201d is making headlines all over America.\u00a0 The following is an extended excerpt from that article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the 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