The Job Market
303,972,298 is the USA population as of April 30, 2008 according to the census. Ac coding to the US Dept. of Labor, our unemployment rate is 5.1%. Thus, that is 15,198,614.9 people (or 5.1% of the total population). This means our unemployment is 15.1 million people...let's dissect this number.
According to the very same labor data, the vast majority of the unemployed wish to be unemployed. Some have family responsibilities, and others are in school so that they can eventually become employed. Wow...and I thought the big Republicans were ruining the job market? Guess what - they're NOT!
Among the races, whites have the lowest unemployment rate, then Latinos, followed by blacks who have statistically double the rate of whites in many of the categories.
The reason I listed this is to showcase that our job force in America is doing very well despite the doom and gloom in the media. Want more proof...OPEN YOUR NEWSPAPER! The WANTED section and want ads are abundant. Visited MONSTER or CAREER BUILDER....or perhaps THE LADDERS? These job sites all have opportunities too! The last time you went to - GOD FORBID - the BK - that there WAS NO help wanted sign on the door or even on their store sign?
There are jobs out there people...there just happens to be a percentage of people who wish not to work. I wouldn't call it LAZY because we have the lowest rate of unemployment almost in the world. This could be because the family member is rich, or because they'd rather, dare I say, be a stay at home mom and raise their children in a more traditional fashion.
Instead, the goal is to show the US in some sort of disastrous market. That would be BOTH untrue and dumb. Typical of the media.
According to the very same labor data, the vast majority of the unemployed wish to be unemployed. Some have family responsibilities, and others are in school so that they can eventually become employed. Wow...and I thought the big Republicans were ruining the job market? Guess what - they're NOT!
Among the races, whites have the lowest unemployment rate, then Latinos, followed by blacks who have statistically double the rate of whites in many of the categories.
The reason I listed this is to showcase that our job force in America is doing very well despite the doom and gloom in the media. Want more proof...OPEN YOUR NEWSPAPER! The WANTED section and want ads are abundant. Visited MONSTER or CAREER BUILDER....or perhaps THE LADDERS? These job sites all have opportunities too! The last time you went to - GOD FORBID - the BK - that there WAS NO help wanted sign on the door or even on their store sign?
There are jobs out there people...there just happens to be a percentage of people who wish not to work. I wouldn't call it LAZY because we have the lowest rate of unemployment almost in the world. This could be because the family member is rich, or because they'd rather, dare I say, be a stay at home mom and raise their children in a more traditional fashion.
Instead, the goal is to show the US in some sort of disastrous market. That would be BOTH untrue and dumb. Typical of the media.
posted by Doctor Rick at 11:45 AM
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