What's Wrong With The Wall Street Journal?

 

They used to be on top of stories like this, instead of sitting around, scratching their asses, asking dumb questions.

 

You read a paragraph like this, say:

That's largely because the economy is growing much too slowly to absorb the available work force, and industries that usually hire early in a recovery—construction and small businesses—were crippled by the credit bust.

And that comes almost directly after this:

Over the past 10 years:

• The U.S. economy's output of goods and services has expanded 19%.

• Nonfinancial corporate profits have risen 85%.

• The labor force has grown by 10.1 million.

• But the number of private-sector jobs has fallen by nearly two million.

• And the percentage of American adults at work has dropped to 58.2%, a low not seen since 1983.

And the conclusion, after almost THIRTY YEARS OF CRAPPY JOBS GROWTH is that jobs were lost two years ago and aren't coming back?

I almost wish they WOULD tap voicemails there. At least they'd have a clue.