SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Job Losers on Layoff as a Percent of Total Unemployed, retrieved from FRED.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. The BLS classifies temporary layoffs as those who have been given a date to return to work by their employer or expect to be recalled to their job within 6 months. However, if a person was uncertain of when they would retum to work due to the coronavirus, the bLo Included this person in the temporary denniton.
BLS classifies them as temporary layoffs. The bulk of those temporary layoffs occurred in April 2020. They were no longer temporary layoffs, well before Biden was even elected. Temporary layoffs are jobs lost
"Workers expecting to be recalled from temporary layoff are counted as unemployed whether or not they have engaged in a specific job seeking activity. In all other cases, the individual must have been engaged in at least one active job search activity in the 4 weeks preceding the interview and be available for work (except for temporary illness)." - BLS
Whether you think BLS numbers are fudged or not, the same techniques for computing them are used year after, from administration to administration. No one at BLS has tried to make Biden's numbers look "good" and Trump's look "bad". That's ridiculous.
<<Second thing is as Irie pointed out, Trump's number contains the Covid shutdown. Biden's numbers reflect the return to work. To make the numbers comparable, the effects of Covid need to be separated from each because Trump's numbers do not reflect true jobs lost and Biden's numbers do not represent jobs created.>>And as I've explained to Irie a million times before, no one is saying that Trump created the pandemic, or that the shutdown was not the primary cause of the jobs losses (though there were no comparable losses during the Spanish Flu pandemic a century before). But if GOPers are going to blame Biden for the worldwide inflation that followed the global shutdown, for which Biden was at least as blameless, and had nothing to do with either starting or maintaining -- but which has been much less severe here under him than in most of the rest of the world -- then it's only fair that Trump take the responsibility for the pandemic. You can't have it both ways.And in fact Trump did make it much worse here than it need have been, both in terms of deaths and economics, as compared to the rest of the world. His numbers reflect his ignoring and lying about the disease for the first few crucial months, as well as his last months in office when he indulged in the crassest of MAGA paranoia politics and ignorance to assure his followers that it was all just a "Deep State Hoax", and not to bother getting vaccinated or taking any common sense precautions.Biden's Covid numbers, on the contrary, reflect his using his political skills against MAGAs in Congress to fund and implement a mass vaccination program, which is what transformed the disease from a pandemic into a normal epidemic, that overwhelmingly killed only MAGAs who bought into the "It's all a Conspiracy!" insanity.
<<Months before the election, Trump was encouraging states to stop their restrictions on jobs and schools and open back up. Democrapic governors would NOT.>>Probably because they didn't want their residents to to DIE just to help Trump politically.
<<Come Biden's inauguration in 2021, they suddenly opened up.>>They opened up not long after Biden became president, because Biden beat the pandemic by getting the vaccine into millions of arms.
Gosh you are bad about digressing. I already know how the employment numbers work loco. That is why I hit on you guys for misinterpreting them.
Are you seriously claiming that there was no mass-vaccination program started and implemented by president Biden shortly after taking office? Or that Covid deaths in America did not begin to drop precipitously among those who took the shots? Or that Trump and his minions were not pushing "Alternative Fact" conspiracy theories about the pandemic, and encouraging (both verbally and by example) rank & file MAGAs to ignore common sense precautions like masks and distancing, to consider the disease a "hoax", and the vaccinations as dangerous at best?Because Trump and they were doing precisely that for months -- pushing outlandish conspiracy theories, especially but not exclusively on social media, that resulted in countless deaths among his followers who bought into them..
<<It was released and first available to the public in December after the election, just a few weeks before Biden was inaugurated and able to DISHONESTLY take credit for it.>>It was released before the election, but the release date has nothing to do with it. What stopped it -- what Biden did early in his presidency, and against strident GOP opposition -- was push through legislation funding the mass distribution of the vaccine into literally hundreds of millions of American arms.
<<Fact 3 and most important one - THE VACCINE DID NOT STOP THE PANDEMIC. NEITHER DID TRUMP NOR BIDEN!! >>Really? What do you think stopped it? National Prayer-A-Thons? Injections of Clorox and Lysol?