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Story of the Year
Daniel Henninger March 06, 2019
An apprentice on a construction project in Coburg, Ore., Feb. 16, 2018.Photo: Brian Davies/Associated Press
The great political challenge of our time is sorting out what matters from what’s just chatter. The din of distracting statistical noise is overwhelming. A Democratic governor named Inslee announces he’s going to run for the U.S. presidency on one issue—climate change. Days later, the real president delivers a speech of immeasurable length to a conference of conservatives about pretty much everything rattling around in his head. The new week dawns with a Democratic House committee chairman named Nadler demanding that 81 of the president’s “associates†provide him with a document dump.
Serious people would like to believe something real in politics is going on. The good news is . . . something is.
This past weekend, The Wall Street Journal published a series of stories titled “Inside the Hottest Job Market in Half a Century.†As far as I’m concerned, this jobs record is the story of the year. The Journal’s articles transformed a year of economic data into the new daily reality of getting paid to work in America.
“All sorts of people who have previously had trouble landing a job are now finding work,†the Journal reported. “Racial minorities, those with less education and people working in the lowest-paying jobs are getting bigger pay raises and, in many cases, experiencing the lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for their groups. They are joining manufacturing workers, women in their prime working years, Americans with disabilities and those with criminal records, among others, in finding improved job prospects after years of disappointment.â€
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