Jobenomics
Jobenomics Founder and President, Chuck Vollmer, is an economic, community, business, and workforce development expert as recognized by government officials, community leaders and national media (CNN, Fox, CBN, etc.). A former highly-decorated combat fighter pilot, corporate executive, and serial business developer who started hundreds of businesses, now specializes in mass-producing startup business and jobs in underserved communities.
Jobenomics’ principal focus is on citizens at the base of America’s socioeconomic pyramid with emphasis on minorities, women, youth, veterans and other hopefuls who want to develop a skill, career and start a business. Today, twenty communities across the U.S. and Canada have launched Jobenomics chapters and are implementing Jobenomics initiatives.
Since 2010, The Jobenomics National Grassroots Movement has reached an estimated audience of thirty-million people via media, website, blog, and lectures. In 2018, Jobenomics America TV began airing multiple public access channels across the United States. In 2019, this website averages over 33,000-page views per month and tens of thousands of downloads of the 100 resource documents in the Jobenomics Content Library.
As Seen On:
Trump Administration’s Governance Challenge
Governance: Trump Administration, Fiscal Policy (Congress) and Monetary Policy (The Fed). The Jobenomics 2018 U.S. Economic Outlook predicts an equal probability (33.3%) for economic improvement, maintaining the status quo or an economic slowdown in 2018. This...
U.S. Not-in-Labor-Force Outlook
Labor Force: Employment, Unemployment and Not-in-Labor-Force Assessment. The Jobenomics 2018 U.S. Economic Outlook predicts an equal probability (33.3%) for economic improvement, maintaining the status quo or an economic slowdown in 2018. This assessment is based...
U.S. Unemployment Outlook
Labor Force: Employment, Unemployment and Not-in-Labor-Force Assessment. The Jobenomics 2018 U.S. Economic Outlook predicts an equal probability (33.3%) for economic improvement, maintaining the status quo or an economic slowdown in 2018. This assessment is based...
U.S. Employment Outlook
Labor Force: Employment, Unemployment and Not-in-Labor-Force Assessment. The Jobenomics 2018 U.S. Economic Outlook predicts an equal probability (33.3%) for economic improvement, maintaining the status quo or an economic slowdown in 2018. This assessment is based...
$1.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
On 12 February 2018, President Trump presented a 53-Page legislative outline to Congress entitled “Legislative Outline for Rebuilding Infrastructure in America.” Apart from four Jobenomics suggestions, the Whitehouse’s infrastructure outline is the best business and...
U.S. Startup Business Outlook
Business: Big, Small, Micro, and Startup Business Assessment. The Jobenomics 2018 U.S. Economic Outlook predicts an equal probability (33.3%) for economic improvement, maintaining the status quo, or an economic slowdown in 2018. This assessment is based on a...
U.S. Small & Micro-Business Outlook
Business: Big, Small, Micro, and Startup Business Assessment. The Jobenomics 2018 U.S. Economic Outlook predicts an equal probability (33.3%) for economic improvement, maintaining the status quo, or an economic slowdown in 2018. This assessment is based on a...
U.S. Big Business Outlook
Business: Big, Small, Micro & Startup Business Assessment. The Jobenomics 2018 U.S. Economic Outlook predicts an equal probability (33.3%) for economic improvement, maintaining the status quo, or an economic slowdown in 2018. This assessment is based on a...
Economy: Consumer Confidence, Debt & Deficits, and Inflation
Economy: Consumer Confidence, Debt & Deficits, and Inflation. The Jobenomics 2018 U.S. Economic Outlook predicts an equal probability (33.3%) for economic improvement, maintaining the status quo, or an economic slowdown in 2018. This assessment is based on a...
Economy: GDP Growth and Stock Markets
Economy: GDP Growth and Stock Markets. The Jobenomics 2018 U.S. Economic Outlook predicts an equal probability (33.3%) for economic improvement, maintaining the status quo or an economic slowdown in 2018. This assessment is based on a detailed analysis of six...
2018 U.S. Economic Outlook
Overview (Part 1 of 7): Jobenomics deals with the economics of small business and job creation. In addition to our monthly reports, this report deals with Jobenomics view of the state of the U.S. economy and how our economy might fair in 2018. As indicated in this...
State of the U.S. Economy January 2018
The Trump Administration’s bold economic and job creation vision (i.e., sustained 4% GDP growth and 25 million new jobs) is progressing as planned, albeit with some bumps in the road. In December 2017, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the U.S. labor force...
Net Neutrality
The Federal Trade Commission’s repeal of network neutrality is bad for small businesses and will hurt the Administration’s plan to produce 25 million new jobs and increasing GDP to a sustainable growth rate of 4% over the next ten years. (Download this article that...
Bitcoin Bubble
The cryptocurrency market bubble is likely to burst causing Bitcoin and the other 1,354 traded cryptocurrencies to crash. (Download this blog.) Bitcoin is a new kind of money. It's the first decentralized, unregulated, peer-to-peer, encrypted electronic currency not...
Jobenomics December 2017 Employment & GDP Report
Executive Summary. The Trump Administration’s bold economic and job creation vision (i.e., sustained 4% GDP growth and 25 million new jobs) is progressing as planned, albeit with some bumps in the road. As addressed in this analysis, recent employment and economic...
Q3 2017 U.S. Labor Force & Unemployment Report
Download free 115-page Jobenomics Comprehensive U.S. Labor Force & Unemployment Report Q3 2017 – 31 October 2017. While U.S. stock market, unemployment and consumer confidence statistics suggest that the U.S. economy is doing well, underlying economic, labor...
Q3 2017 U.S. Employment Report
Download free 175-page Jobenomics Comprehensive U.S. Labor Force & Employment Report Q3 2017 - 31 October 2017. While highly-advertised statistics (e.g., stock market, official unemployment rate and consumer confidence index) suggest that the U.S. economy is...
Corporate Tax Cuts
Tax reform is an American imperative, as our system outdated and is a major factor of sclerotic rates of economic growth that depresses GDP and erodes middle class wages. Since our highly-divided Congress cannot seem to cut spending ($500B to $1T annual deficits), tax...
Jobenomics Monthly Employment & GDP Report
Executive Summary. The Trump Administration’s bold economic and job creation vision (i.e., sustained 4% GDP growth and 25 million new jobs) is progressing as planned albeit with some bumps in the road. As addressed in this analysis, recent employment and economic...
Tax Reform
Tax Reform is Trump’s signature initiative that underpins his bold vision of sustained 4% GDP growth and 25 million new jobs over the next ten years. Jobenomics could not agree more with this vision. On 2 November 2017, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of...
Puerto Rican Renewal
Don’t only restore but renew Puerto Rico. Enacted by Congress and approved by President Wilson in 1917, the Jones–Shafroth Act made Puerto Ricans United States citizens. If the United States can invest trillions of dollars transforming war-torn countries decimated...
Gender Pay Gap
The gender pay gap is a highly-charged political and social issue. Unfortunately, few Americans fully understand the data behind gender income inequality. While it is true that American men make more than women, the gap is narrowing. In 2016, American women earned...
Jobenomics Employment & GDP Report: 9 October 2017
Executive Summary. The Trump Administration’s bold economic and job creation vision (i.e., sustained 4% GDP growth and 25 million new jobs) is facing stiff headwinds from the opposition, Washington and even the weather (Hurricanes). This vision is likely to fall...
Paris Climate Accord?
In December 2015, the Obama Administration committed to the Paris Climate Accord to reduce toxic greenhouse gases and reduce “economy-wide” emissions by as much as 28% by 2025 via the implementation of ultra-clean renewable energy sources. Unfortunately, this...
Merit-Based DACA?
Download complete article: Merit-Based DACA - 7 September 2017 The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was established by an Executive Order from President Obama in June 2012 to protect children of illegal immigrants from being deported. The program...
Jobenomics August 2017 Employment Report Analysis
Executive Summary. The two primary sources for U.S. labor force data are the monthly U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment Situation Summary, a monthly summary of all U.S. government and private sector employment, and the ADP National Employment Report, a...
Jobenomics July 2017 Employment Report Analysis
Executive Summary. The two primary sources for U.S. labor force data are the monthly U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment Situation Summary, a monthly summary of all U.S. government and private sector employment, and the ADP National Employment Report, a...
Q2 2017 GDP Growth 2.6%
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.6% in the second quarter of 2017 (Q2 2017) according to the "advance" estimate released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis on 28 July 2017. 2.6% is a positive sign for the U.S. economy and a...
Jobenomics Analysis of June 2017 U.S. Employment Reports
Executive Summary: The two primary sources for U.S. labor force data are the monthly U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment Situation Summary, a monthly summary of all U.S. government and private sector employment, and the ADP National Employment Report, a...
Analysis of May 2017 U.S. Employment Reports
Executive Summary: May’s employment reports painted a mixed picture for the Trump Administration. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment Situation Summary stated in May 2017 the United States produced a total of 138,000 new jobs—a number well below...
President Trump’s First Budget
Last week White House Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney released President Trump’s FY2018 Budget Request, entitled “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again”. Perhaps the most striking theme of the Trump FY2018 Budget Request...
Jobenomics U.S. Employment Analysis: 5 May 2017
Executive Summary: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment Situation Summary stated that in April 2017 the United States produced 211,000 new jobs. The ADP National Employment Report summary reported 177,000 new jobs. Both numbers are below the 250,000...
Jobenomics Erie
For more information go to: JobenomicsErie.com Jobenomics Erie’s focus is on mass producing micro-businesses and jobs with emphasis on inner-city Erie minorities, veterans, women, new workforce entrants and other hopefuls who want a job, career and those who are...
Jobenomics U.S. Employment Analysis: 15 April 2017
Jobenomics U.S. Employment Analysis: 15 April 2017 The two primary sources for U.S. labor force data are the monthly U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment Situation Summary, a monthly summary of all U.S. government and private sector employment, and the ADP...
Employment-Based Immigration
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 20 of 20). The United States attracts the best and brightest people from other countries to study, work, become citizens and start businesses. In 2015, immigrant startup business entrepreneurs represent 27.5%, up from...
2044 Minority-Majority Nation
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 19 of 20). President Trump’s Economic Plan estimates a 3.5% annual growth rate that will produce 25 million new jobs this decade. To do so, the Trump Administration will need full support and engagement of America’s...
The Urban Renewal Imperative
President Trump’s Economic Plan estimates that the Trump Administration should be able to achieve a minimum of 3.5% annual growth that will produce 25 million new jobs this decade. Since 81% percent of all Americans reside in urban communities, the key to achieving...
Trump Administration’s Minimum Wage Conundrum
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 17 of 20). Most people perceive that minimum wage laws apply mainly to the 4.7 million fast-food industry workers. This perception understates the serious consequences of a universal minimum wage to all businesses, the...
President Trump’s Income Opportunity Solution
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 16 of 20). As discussed in the previous article, the United States now has reached a point where only 14% (45 million) of Americans earn above average (mean) wages and 86% (274 million) of Americans report earnings below...
President Trump’s Income Inequality Challenge
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 15 of 20). One of the significant challenges to President Trump, Labor Secretary Acosta and other members of the Trump Administration is dealing with the thorny issue of growing income inequality. The influx of $17...
Lawyer at Labor’s Helm
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 14 of 20). One might think that the U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) main purpose would be a forward-looking organization that positions the U.S. labor force for major disruptive trends like the emerging digital economy,...
Accelerating Workforce Automation
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 13 of 20). The Network Technology Revolution (NTR) is defined by Jobenomics as the “perfect storm” of next-generation network and digital technologies that will (1) transform economies, (2) revamp existing institutions,...
Can President Xi Trump President Trump?
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 12 of 20). The Trump Administration has been rather silent regarding the emerging digital economy that will be dominated by contingent workers especially in the realm of electronic and mobile commerce. On the other...
President Trump’s Biggest Chinese Fan
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 11 of 20). President Trump wants to create 25 million new jobs over 10 years. He can’t do it himself. The private sector has to step up. So far, a handful of U.S. manufacturing companies have stepped up offering to...
Jobenomics U.S. Employment Analysis: March 2017
Since President Trump took office, U.S. employment gains have been impressive—a very positive start for the new Administration. The two primary sources for U.S. labor force data are the monthly U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Employment Situation Summary and...
The Trump Administration’s Digital Elephant
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 10 of 20). President Trump’s meetings with the likes of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Oracle CEO Safra Catz, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, IBM CEO Ginni Rommety, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg,...
President Trump’s New Economy Plan?
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 9 of 20). President Trump is a big digital media fan as evidenced by his prolific use of Twitter and his 20 million Twitter followers. However, the emerging digital economy has not been mentioned during his campaign or...
President Trump’s Old Economy Emphasis
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 8 of 20). Jobenomics deals with the economics of small business and job creation. Consequently, having a businessman as president and a cabinet full of business executives is likely to be a big plus for businesses and...
Jobenomics Freedom Farms
Background: Jobenomics is partnered with ACTS Freedom Farms of America (FFA) to produce over 25,000 highly-scalable U.S. micro-farms, employing over 100,000 net new jobs in the next five years. Our initial pilot projects will focus on veteran-owned businesses—one of...
President Trump’s Non-Standard Workforce
President Trump’s New Economy Challenge (Part 7 of 20). The Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) defines the contingent workforce as the portion of the labor force that has “nonstandard work arrangements” or those without “permanent jobs with a...