11-06-2016, 01:24 PM
(11-06-2016, 01:53 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: Rising employment? Your confusing people running out their unemployment benefits and creation of minimum wage & part time job growth which distorts the numbers.
I keep on seeing this, but U-6, the measure that takes into account discouraged workers and underemployed, has been falling at about the same rate as U-3, the official unemployment rate. So your statement is false. Also false because unemployment benefits have nothing to do with the rate.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
