Despite Obama XL Pipeline has 4,000 employed since August

[tinydancer]

Canadians care about creating American jobs. Aren't you glad someone does?

Now of course the politics and the lobbying is still going on. The Premier of Alberta is flying in this week to Washington, to lobby for approval to have the permission for the Northern portion of XL to be finalized.


One segment of the Keystone XL pipeline is half complete

Pete Curtis and tricia.flatley Feb 24, 2013 07:46:44 AM

The northern portion of the project may still be awaiting approval from the American government, but a section of the Keystone XL pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Texas gulf coast is half complete.

That’s according to Transcanada Pipelines which says nearly 4,000 workers are laying down and welding a 485 mile section of the multi-billion dollar pipeline.

If the project avoids setbacks, that portion of the pipeline could be moving oil by the end of the year.

One segment of the Keystone XL pipeline is half complete | 660News

 

[Agit8r]

Canadians care about creating American jobs. Aren't you glad someone does?

Now of course the politics and the lobbying is still going on. The Premier of Alberta is flying in this week to Washington, to lobby for approval to have the permission for the Northern portion of XL to be finalized.


One segment of the Keystone XL pipeline is half complete

Pete Curtis and tricia.flatley Feb 24, 2013 07:46:44 AM

The northern portion of the project may still be awaiting approval from the American government, but a section of the Keystone XL pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Texas gulf coast is half complete.

That’s according to Transcanada Pipelines which says nearly 4,000 workers are laying down and welding a 485 mile section of the multi-billion dollar pipeline.

If the project avoids setbacks, that portion of the pipeline could be moving oil by the end of the year.

One segment of the Keystone XL pipeline is half complete | 660News

"Despite Obama"? wow, really?

Obama in Oklahoma backs southern pipeline leg | Fox News

 

[tinydancer]

Canadians care about creating American jobs. Aren't you glad someone does?

Now of course the politics and the lobbying is still going on. The Premier of Alberta is flying in this week to Washington, to lobby for approval to have the permission for the Northern portion of XL to be finalized.


One segment of the Keystone XL pipeline is half complete

Pete Curtis and tricia.flatley Feb 24, 2013 07:46:44 AM

The northern portion of the project may still be awaiting approval from the American government, but a section of the Keystone XL pipeline between Cushing, Oklahoma and the Texas gulf coast is half complete.

That’s according to Transcanada Pipelines which says nearly 4,000 workers are laying down and welding a 485 mile section of the multi-billion dollar pipeline.

If the project avoids setbacks, that portion of the pipeline could be moving oil by the end of the year.

One segment of the Keystone XL pipeline is half complete | 660News

"Despite Obama"? wow, really?

Obama in Oklahoma backs southern pipeline leg | Fox News

He can't disapprove of the southern leg. Obama can't stop the southern leg of the pipeline if he wanted to. Or don't you know that?

Only reason he has any control of the northern section along with his State Department is that the pipeline crosses international borders. Are you going to try to tell me the President couldn't order the State Department to approve the Northern section?



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[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - The Donald Makin' America Great Again...

Manufacturing Jobs Up 31,000 in February; 263,000 Since Trump Took Office
March 9, 2018 | The United States added 31,000 manufacturing jobs in February and employment in the manufacturing sector has now increased by 263,000 since December 2016, the last month before President Donald Trump took office.

“Manufacturing added 31,000 jobs in February,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in its monthly employment report released today. “Within the industry, employment rose in transportation equipment (+8,000), fabricated metal products (+6,000), machinery (+6,000), and primary metals (+4,000).”

The last time there were more manufacturing jobs in the United States than there were in February was in December 2008, the last month before President Barack Obama took office. That month, according to BLS, there were 12,850,000 manufacturing jobs. But, in January 2009, the month Obama was inaugurated, manufacturing jobs dropped to 12,561,000—and did not move back above 12,600,000 until last month.

In December 2016, the month before Trump was inaugurated, there were 12,351,000 manufacturing jobs in the United States. Since then, it has climbed by 263,000 to 12,614,000. In January 2017, the month Trump was inaugurated, manufacturing jobs rose to 12,369,000—an increase of 18,000. In the months since Trump’s inauguration, manufacturing jobs have increased by 245,000.

Manufacturing Jobs Up 31,000 in February; 263,000 Since Trump Took Office

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155,215,000: Record Number of Americans Employed
March 9, 2018 - The number of employed Americans has now broken eight records, most recently in February, since President Donald Trump took office.

155,215,000 Americans were employed in February, 785,000 more than last month’s record 154,430,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday. The number of employed Black Americans hit a record high of 19,087,000 last month, and a record 72,530,000 women 16 and older were counted as employed. The labor force participation rate increased three-tenths of a point, and the nation’s unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1 percent for a fifth straight month. To put the unemployment rate in perspective, the last time we saw rates this low, Bill Clinton was president. In the final four months of 2000 -- Clinton's final full year in office -- the unemployment rate was 3.9 percent, and it dipped to a Clinton-era low of 3.8 percent for one month only, in April 2000. During Richard Nixon's term, the unemployment rate dropped to 3.4 percent at various times in 1968 and 1969, the lowest it had been since 1953.

Other findings:

-- The economy added a whopping 313,000 jobs in February. BLS said after revisions, job gains have averaged 242,000 over the last 3 months.

-- Wages continue to rise: In February, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 4 cents to $26.75, following a 7-cent gain in January. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by 68 cents, or 2.6 percent.

-- The number of Americans not in the labor force, meaning they are not working or looking for work, remained stubbornly high at 95,012,000. This group includes a growing number of retirees as well as people who are going to school or who choose not to work for other reasons.

In February, the nation’s civilian noninstitutionalized population, consisting of all people age 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, reached 256,934,000. Of those, 161,921,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one. The 161,921,000 who participated in the labor force equaled 63.0 percent of the 256,934,000 civilian noninstitutionalized population. The labor force participation rate has been stuck at or near the 62-63 percent level for the past four years.

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell told Congress last month that although the labor force participation rate has shown little movement, this is nevertheless a sign of job-market strength, "given that retiring baby-boomers are putting downward pressure on the participation rate." Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for Blacks declined to 6.9 percent in February, close to the record low of 6.8 percent set in December 2017. The jobless rates for adult men (3.7 percent), adult women (3.8 percent), teenagers (14.4 percent), Whites (3.7 percent), Asians (2.9 percent), and Hispanics (4.9 percent) showed little change.

155,215,000: Record Number of Americans Employed