it was right around the time he said he would have voted trump . <| sep |> 2 C 2 2 C 1 for pixel fire ? <| sep |> That ' s what got them in this boat in the first place . <| sep |> As someone with experience in labor economics , the employment situation is not as good as the current figure . If you take into consideration the number of people who have given up plus underemployment the jobs picture is not so rosy . This has been the largest crop of underemployed people and people who want to work and have given up since WWII . Even the jobs people are getting are not as good as the ones that they had previously . Wages went up during the 90 s due to the one time productivity addition of computers . Now there are very minor improvements to productivity by IT and the other thing is now with globalization these productivity increases are felt across the world so US workers don ' t have that competitive advantage in terms of increased productivity they had 20 years ago