The U6 Unemployment numbers tell us that the real unemployment has been hovering around 14 -15% about the same as the poverty numbers, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, also tell us that since Jan 2009, when the Messiah took over till today, there are 2% LESS people 16 years old and older in the work force. So one has to wonder WHERE these millions of jobs are that Obama and his supporters keep telling us he created when their own record keeping organizations, don’t support this lie. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000/
You can call me Bobby, I run a little site called Thinksquad. I have an associates degree in industrial design from the Art Institute of Seattle. A bachelors of arts from the University of Washington, and graduated with a double major in philosophy and political science from Rutgers University. I also spent 10 years in the Air Force from 1994-2004, having spent five tours in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan. I am now a strong advocate of the non-aggression principles, voluntaryism and peaceful parenting.
I believe in anarchism without adjectives, because no one really knows what will work best until we have the chance to try. Local communities should be free to try any non-coercive system, and residents should be able to move somewhere else if they don’t like the way things are going. Through solidarity, competition, and sharing of information eventually a system of social organization would evolve that will be superior to anything that we could imagine today. And even if we were right, we’d only be guessing without going through that process.
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There are perhaps as many as 290 million 15-to-24-year-olds not participating in the labor market—almost a quarter of the world’s youth. Why is youth unemployment so high?
To put that in perspective:
290,000,000 Unemployed Youths (worldwide)
311,591,917 The Population of the United States. -
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The Idled Young Americans
The United States has gone from having the highest share of employed 25- to 34-year-olds among large, wealthy economies to having among the lowest.
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Spain Jobless Rate Breaches 27% on Recession Woes
Spanish unemployment rose more than economists forecast in the first quarter to the highest in at least 37 years as efforts to tackle the European Union’s biggest budget deficit crimped economic growth. -
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Unemployment rate drops to 7.6 percent
The latest unemployment figures for March 2013 showed the unemployment rate dropped to 7.6%. However, 200K fewer people were employed in March than in February and 500K people dropped out of the workforce.
Politicians may celebrate this rate drop, but it is only artificial, and millions of Americans will continue to suffer.
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Unemployment is really 22.8%
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The number of employed Americans comes from a government survey of 60,000 households that determines the unemployment rate. The government asks a series of questions, by phone or in person.
For example:
Do you own a business? Did you work for pay? If not, did you provide unpaid work for a family business or farm? (Those who did are considered employed.)Afterward, the survey participants are asked whether they had a job and, if so, whether it was full or part time. The government’s definition of unemployed is someone who’s out of work and has actively looked for a job in the past four weeks.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-jobless-rate-falls-7-123110106.html
(via alittlecoconuttart)
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![theatlantic:
Our Low-Wage Recovery: How McJobs Have Replaced Middle Class Jobs
Mid-wage jobs, such as construction trades and secretaries, accounted for 60 percent of our employment drop during the recession but made up just 22 percent of the recovery through the first quarter of 2012, according to the most recent Current Population Survey data.
Read more. [Image: National Employment Law Project]
Thinksquad: I was lead to believe by statist, that the road to recovery is well on it’s way, and because we have this wonderful president, who cares about the people, that everything is getting better. Lemon drops for rain, and Chocolate paved roads.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9mw5bxPtn1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
Our Low-Wage Recovery: How McJobs Have Replaced Middle Class Jobs
Mid-wage jobs, such as construction trades and secretaries, accounted for 60 percent of our employment drop during the recession but made up just 22 percent of the recovery through the first quarter of 2012, according to the most recent Current Population Survey data.
Read more. [Image: National Employment Law Project]
Thinksquad: I was lead to believe by statist, that the road to recovery is well on it’s way, and because we have this wonderful president, who cares about the people, that everything is getting better. Lemon drops for rain, and Chocolate paved roads.
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The 86 million invisible unemployed
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — There are far more jobless people in the United States than you might think.
While it’s true that the unemployment rate is falling, that doesn’t include the millions of nonworking adults who aren’t even looking for a job anymore. And hiring isn’t strong enough to keep up with population growth.As a result, the labor force is now at its smallest size since the 1980s when compared to the broader working age population.
“We’ve been getting some job growth and it’s been significant, but it hasn’t yet been strong enough that you start to get people re-engaging in the labor market,” said Keith Hall, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and former commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Job market dropouts
A person is counted as part of the labor force if they have a job or have looked for one in the last four weeks. As of April, only 63.6% of Americans over the age of 16 fell into that category, according to the Labor Department. That’s the lowest labor force participation rate since 1981.
It’s a worrisome sign for the economy and partly explains why the unemployment rate has been falling recently. Only people looking for work are considered officially unemployed. -
