I Also Hesitate On Posting On Jobs Numbers Anymore

The problem here being that, on the one hand it is undeniably true that it is a good thing that more people are gainfully employed. More to the point, though, that people deserve bits of good news to focus on as necessary counterweight to all of the bad news that predominates.

That being said, however, still doesn't change the fact that, not only are so few of those jobs paying anything even near a true living wage, so many other things are crumbling around us even as this one, isolated metric ticks up. Where our children, in fact, in increasing numbers, no longer see the point in living any more, even before they enter the ever more insane world of making your own way.

How do we hold on to the good bits, even as we recognize the continuing deficiencies? Hower we can I guess, because there are no simple, one size fits all answers there.  I guess it boils down to why you still keep going now in general. I keep at it because I still see hope in finding a new shared vision for this nation. As well as my firm belief that, if we can ever regain that shared vision, there isn't anything this nation can't accomplish.

U.S. Added 209,000 Jobs in July, Unemployment Holds at 4.3%