zerohedge | Who says America has a jobs problem? As the chart below shows, the
"New Economy" may pay abysmally, but at least it promises a little to
everyone (or to paraphrase a famous phrase "From each according to his
ability, to each according to his need"). Nowhere is that more obvious
than in the chart showing the monthly change in waiter and bartender
jobs.
Here is the bottom line: in the past 65 months, or nearly
five and a half years starting with March 2010, or when the jobs
"recovery" really kicked in, jobs for waiters and bartenders (aka food
service and drinking places) have declined just once.
This is a statistically abnormal hit rate of nearly 99%, and one
which we assume has everything to do with the BLS' charge of not so much
reporting reality as finding loopholes in the goalseeked model to
report that the US keeps adding over 200,000 jobs every month or bust.
Putting this number in context, the US has allegedly added 376K bartenders in the past year, and 3 million since March 2010.
