Stunning Job Growth Adds 250K as Wages Rise 4% and Violent Crime Continues Dramatic Drop Across US

CRIME

For their final annual report covering over 94% of the country's population, the FBI announced this week that violent crime declined across the country last year, including a dramatic drop in the number of murders—down nearly 12% from 2022 to 2023—the largest decline in decades.

The reported number of r*pes also dropped significantly, by more than 9%, while property crime decreased an estimated 2.4%.

Last year, the FBI said in its report, "every city agency covering a population of 1,000,000 or more inhabitants contributed a full 12 months of data" to the bureau's crime reporting program, according to CNN.

For instance, the Chicago Police Department reported in January their crime stats for 2023, which showed a 12.9% drop in homicides compared to 2022.

"A comparison of data from agencies that voluntarily submitted at least three or more common months of data for January through June 2023 and 2024 indicates reported violent crime decreased by 10.3%. Murder decreased by 22.7%, r*pe decreased by 17.7%, robbery decreased by 13.6%, and aggravated assault decreased by 8.1%. Reported property crime also decreased by 13.1%."

JOB GROWTH SURGES, AS WAGES CLIMB

A blockbuster jobs report on Friday showed the US economy created 254,000 new jobs in September—blowing past economists' predictions—while revising upward their estimates of the two previous months.

Most of the new jobs were created in food and beverage services (+69,000), health care (+45,000), government (+31,000), social assistance (+27,000), and construction (+25,000).

And, people may have more money in their pocket because over the past 12 months average hourly earnings in the US have increased by 4 percent, well above inflation which is now back down to pre-pandemic levels.

One guest on Fox News, the president of MDB Capital, summed up the data this way: "I thought there would be more red flags than a communist parade in this report, and there's not a single one. … There's not one data point in here that I can point to that is not good."

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The annual inflation rate over the last 12 months ending in August was 2.5%, compared to 3.4% in the previous year, according to U.S. Labor Department data published on September 11.

Stock markets surged on the good news, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average adding 341 points on Friday, to hit yet another all-time closing high of 42,352.

Economy's strong, crime is in decline, life is good. Don't stress out about a 24/7 news cycle that has no bearing on your real-world success and happiness.