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The jobs report for month of May will show whether the damage caused by the Republican Party and its far right allies will impact the economy. They caused chaos during the debt ceiling debacle as well as their "pointless" boycotts against companies that are "woke."

For the month of May, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 339,000 were added.

The unemployment rate has risen to 3.7%.

For the 50 states, five territories and the District of Columbia, the jobs were spread across the country.

Biden can brag that despite the rumors of a recession, jobs are still coming. 

The unfortunate side of a jobs report is the aftermath.

Being laid off or being fired from a job really sucks. Take it from me, I hate it. I am stable but I hate the two jobs I am working at. They don't pay enough and I based my whole life around them and nothing else. It has to come to an end soon.

The things observed:

There is a writer's strike. The Writers Guild of America and its union representatives have decided to strike over the networks not paying enough for its writers. Many of these top executives are making 9 figure salaries. 

The controversies continue to pile up for Washed Up 45. He was caught on audio admitting that he violated the rules when it comes to dealing with sensitive material. 

Companies are closing.

The special council overseeing this, Jack Smith is close to wrapping this up. He is also involved in the former president's attempts to overturn the 2020 elections.

The former president also alluded to deliberately hiding documents and ignoring the National Archives request. He appeared on Softball Hannity's right wing shitshow for a town hall. 

President Joe Biden took a fall and the far right are obsessed with his health. They are not doctors but they're speculations are driving discussion about the age of current lawmakers and the president.

Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Jon Tester (D-MT) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) voted with Republicans to overturn the Biden Student Loan Debt Forgiveness program. The three face a tough reelection fight. Manchin and Sinema have not confirmed whether they are running for reelection.

71 Republicans and 46 Democrats in the House of Representatives prove to the country that they're incompetent. They voted against the debt ceiling increase due to their partisan extremism. No surprise there that those who voted against it have no legislative accomplishments. Some who are running for governor, Senate or trying to get into the White House are likely doomed to failure.

Anheuser Busch and Target seen slumps in sales due to far right backlash against "woke."

U.S. Department of Homeland Security warn that Pride Events are under threat of politically motivated violence. The LGBTQ community has faced unprecedented threats from the far right. Florida teacher Jenna Barbee becomes an activist after Florida's Board of Education forced her to resign after a Hernando County School Board Member reported her to them after she shown Disney's Strange World which featured a character who identified as a queer.

Manchin and Tester voted to reject student debt cancellation. Manchin also added pork to the budget and debt ceiling increase.

Mississippi authorities and the U.S. Justice Department are involved in the police shooting of 11-year old Black boy named Aderrien Murry. The boy survived his injuries but the question is, why?

The boy called 9-1-1 on a report of a domestic dispute involving his mother. Murry's mother gave the following account of the shooting: at 4 a.m., a man, who had fathered another child with her, came to her home in an "irate" mood, so she directed Murry to call the police; after which one officer that arrived at her home “had his gun drawn at the front door and asked those inside the home to come outside", but then this officer shot Murry when Murry came "from around the corner", entering the living room from a hallway. Murry's mother also said that the officer who shot Murry later helped her render aid to Murry, until medics came to the scene. The Murry family's lawyer said that Murry was unarmed at the time of the shooting, and also said that since Murry's height was "about 4 foot 10" inches (1.47 m), the officer "could not have been confused" between Murry and the man Murry contacted the police about, as the man is over 6 feet tall (over 1.82 m). Murry's family have called for police body camera footage to be released, and also called for the officer to be terminated from his position and charged with aggravated assault.

Within two weeks of the shooting, Murry and his mother initiated a lawsuit in federal court, against the officer who shot him, as well as the city of Indianola, its police chief, and five unnamed police officers; the lawsuit alleged "negligence and excessive force" and requested $5 million in compensation.

Bed Bath & Beyond, Tuesday Morning and Jenny Craig are gone. Target, Walmart, Kroger, JC Penney, Macy's, Big Lots, Best Buy, Foot Locker, Champs Sports and Gap are closing locations.

Wages are not meeting up to the demand. 

Republicans already signal impeachment, national abortion bans, more guns on the streets, ending birthright citizenship, stopping the Biden pledge to cancel student debt, use taxpayer money to build a border wall, ban transgender people from playing gender based sports, start endless investigations into the president, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Big Tech, the FBI, the pull out in Afghanistan, repeal the Affordable Care Act, repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, end COVID pandemic assistance and enforce voter ID laws on all Americans.

Payrolls in the public and private sector increased by 339,000 for the month, better than the 190,000 Dow Jones estimate and marking the 29th straight month of positive job growth.

Sinema requested more security after threats. She is facing backlash for betraying Democrats.

The unemployment rate rose to 3.7% in May against the estimate for 3.5%, even though the labor force participation rate was unchanged. The jobless rate was the highest since October 2022, though still near the lowest since 1969.

May’s hiring jump was almost exactly in line with the 12-month average of 341,000 in a job market that has held up remarkably well in an economy that has been slowing.

Professional and business services led job creation for the month with a net 64,000 new hires. Government helped boost the numbers with an addition of 56,000 jobs, while health care contributed 52,000.

Other notable gainers included leisure and hospitality (48,000), construction (25,000), and transportation and warehousing (24,000).

Despite the big jobs gain, the unemployment rate increased due in large part to a sharp decline of 369,000 in self-employment. That was part of an overall drop of 310,000 counted as employed in the household survey, which is used to calculate the unemployment rate and generally is considered more volatile than the survey of establishments used for the headline payrolls number.

“The upshot is that the only genuine sign of weakness in the report was the decline in average weekly hours worked to 34.3, from 34.4, which left them at the lowest level since the Covid nadir in April 2020,” wrote Paul Ashworth, chief North America economist for Capital Economics.

An alternative measure of unemployment that encompasses discouraged workers and those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons edged higher to 6.7%.

May’s jobs numbers come amid a challenging time for the economy, with many experts still expecting a recession later this year or early in 2024.

The Congress has less than most Americans. It is infuriating that the average worker works more hours than those 117 House members and 36 senators.

Republicans see the only path to victory is basically obstruct and complain about the president. They won't offer solutions or policies. All they care about is trying to keep folks angry with culture wars and distractions.

President Joe Biden's headaches:

1. The Republicans in the House of Representatives.
2. Gun violence and Congress not doing anything to stop it.
3. Inflation.
4. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
5. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Rep. George Santos (R-NY), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO).
6. Republican governors Ron DeSantis, Kay Ivey, Greg Abbott, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Bill Lee, Glenn Youngkin, Kristie Noem, Kim Reynolds, Brian Kemp, Brad Little and Greg Gianforte
7. The junk food media and their never ending dramatizing of world events.
8. Anti-Vaxxers. 
9. Lawmakers and activists who protest the CDC guidelines during the pandemic.
10. The endless culture wars that Republicans find outrage in.
11. Washed Up 45 and his minions on Fox, Newsmax, OANN and the internet.
12. Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. The idiots who run it and the idiots who post on it.
13. Fox, Breitbart, Libs of TikTok, The Daily Mail, Newsmax and OANN's relentless talk about conspiracies. The endless attacks on the president's age, First Lady Jill Biden, Hunter Biden, Ashley Biden and the conspiracies about the president's mental capacity and health.
14. The endless racism towards Biden's allies Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Barack Obama.
15. The relentless talk about spending despite the former president's reckless spending.
16. The lack of civility towards fellow Americans.
17. Vladimir Putin.
18. Xi Jinping.
19. Kim Jong-Un.
20. Benjamin Netanyahu
21. Alexander Lukashenko
22. Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud

The coronavirus doesn't care about your age, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, politics, economic or social standings. It doesn't care about your business, your performances, your personal finances and travel. It doesn't care about the funerals, the birthday parties, the weddings, the vacations, the events and your graduations.

An active shooter doesn't care about the politics, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, your finances, your family, your plans that day, your successes, your failures, and most importantly, your life.

The Freedumb Caucasians with a Black conservative. The Republicans rejected their own budget deal.

You're not safe in the school, the concert, the hospital, the church, the casino, the bus station, the subway, the light rail train, the buses, the malls, the local big box store, the political rally, the protest rally, the women's center for reproductive surgeries, the mosque, the synagogue, the state buildings, the workplace, the gas station, the family picnic, the food truck rally, the funerals, the birthday parties, the graduations, the wedding, the televised events, the sporting events and many more events that have some terrorist with a firearm. Domestic violence, suicide, racism, culture war inspired, politically motivated and international operative inspired are types of gun violence.

Food prices, energy prices, rent, city services and college education have risen. Companies are struggling to find workers. They are now trying to push incentives to get workers in.

Real Reasons To Why Unemployment Rate Stays The Way It Is!

1. DEAD
   
2. BORN
3. THE PANDEMIC
4. CLIMATE CHANGE
5. IN PRISON
6. IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
7. IN MIDDLE SCHOOL
   
8. IN HIGH SCHOOL
9. IN COLLEGE NOT LOOKING
10. VOLUNTEER
11. DISABLED
12. INFLATION
13. STAY AT HOME PARENT
14. RETIRED 
15. QUIT ON THEIR OWN
16. TERMINATED FROM EMPLOYMENT 
17. NOT HIRING UNQUALIFIED
18. NOT HIRING TOO QUALIFIED
19. ACTIVE MILITARY
20. NATURAL DISASTERS
21. MASS SHOOTINGS DISRUPT DAILY ROUTINE
22. BEING LAID OFF DUE TO CLOSING OR STAFF REDUCTION
23. DESTRUCTION TO FACILITY OR PROPRETY
24. OUTSOURCING JOBS TO OTHER STATES OR COUNTRIES
25. BEING UNDOCUMENTED IN FEAR OF I.C.E. OR U.S. AGENCIES
26. BEING PUBLICLY OUTED ON SOCIAL MEDIA DOING SHAMEFUL ACTS
27. PARTICIPATING IN UNCIVIL OR VIOLENT PROTESTS

Jobs are looking good despite fears of an economic slowdown.

Companies are still trying to hire employees. With the average wages stagnant, many are not looking forward to returning to a job that pays dirt wages. Many who worked in the retail, restaurant and low end service industry are not willing to take a job for less than $10 an hour. Matter of fact, no one can survive on $15 an hour.

Republicans don't see the bigger picture itself. They rather continue to believe in conspiracies about people collecting the safety net and not going back to work.

Give them a liveable wage and maybe things might improve in the job market

We can't always assume that folks are lazy. People are literally dying from being exposed to the coronavirus and folks are tired of the status quo of their jobs.

Many single mothers are having trouble trying to find quality daycare or family members to watch children. On top of that, some have lost family members due to the pandemic. A homemaker may have lost their spouse. Some may have no choice but to watch their children or loved ones due to the aftermath of the pandemic.

Folks are still trying to rebound from medical bills, late rent payments, owing taxes and college loans.

We are fighting for the Middle Class.

Republicans are white nationalists without a conscience. 

Washed Up 45's presidency and Republican controlled governments killed millions of Americans. Biden has a slim majority in Congress and things can't be done with obstruction from both parties.

Holding these lawmakers accountable is not just a pledge, but a promise. You need to learn who represents your community. Your local community member, your school board member, your mayor, your state representative, your state senator, your governor, your U.S. Representative, your U.S. Senator and the president need to be held accountable for their actions. 

We need to put pressure on Republicans and Democrats to do something to improve everyone's lives.

The call number to the U.S. Capitol is now going to be used. This is the official phone number, 202-224-3121. Let them know that "thoughts and prayers," "hearts going to" and "good guys with guns" are no longer acceptable and you want legislation to curb gun violence. Let them know that women deserve the right to safe medical procedures. Let them know that their failure to pass legislation to lower prices are the reasons why the economy is in a free fall.