National December employment report looks promising for Pittsburgh (Upper St. Clair, Fox Chapel: crime, chapel)

[Aqua Teen Carl]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

It's more that that hasn't been a thing since Y2K.

It's a meme that ages like a fine wine.

[Craziaskowboi]

It's an internet/video game figure of speech. It comes from "All Your Base Are Belong To Us," which was an imperfect Engrish translation from Japanese. It was supposed to say "All Your Bases Belong To Us," but somewhere along the way it was interpreted as "All Your Base Is Belong To Us," which was then conjugated wrong and became "All Your Base Are Belong To Us."

[bradjl2009]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

Speaking of which . . .

Falbo, Desmone craft plans for Lawrenceville apartment building - Pittsburgh Business Times

Finally they're getting rid of that huge gap on Butler! They are also building a new building by 38th and 39th Sts. and a group of homes right across the street from Doughboy Square.

[gg]

Originally Posted by bradjl2009

Finally they're getting rid of that huge gap on Butler! They are also building a new building by 38th and 39th Sts. and a group of homes right across the street from Doughboy Square.

A friend of mine owns a business in Lawrenceville. He was robbed not once, but twice this weekend. That place is a dump and a crime ridden hole. I think he will have to close his doors because his insurance won't pay enough. What a hole. They broke his front window one day and the next day smashed in his front door. Guess that place is the same as it was 7 or so years ago. A dump.

[Denton56]

Originally Posted by jay5835

Really, indeed.

Isn't that why people go to college? Because it makes them more marketable, more likely to get a job and to get one at a higher salary? Seems like a DUH.

[Denton56]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

It's an internet/video game figure of speech. It comes from "All Your Base Are Belong To Us," which was an imperfect Engrish translation from Japanese. It was supposed to say "All Your Bases Belong To Us," but somewhere along the way it was interpreted as "All Your Base Is Belong To Us," which was then conjugated wrong and became "All Your Base Are Belong To Us."

Engrish? Engrish.com

[Scott2187]

Why does no one ever discuss the REAL unemployment rate, which is 15.6%??

Jobless Numbers Offer Little To Cheer About - Investors.com

[LEFT](It also doesn't help when the Obama administration is changing the definition of who is looking for work. "The U3 rate is the percentage of the "participating labor force" that is unemployed.... And what the Obama administration has done is simply shrink the definition of the "labor force" by pretending that hundreds of thousands of non-working adults are no longer in existence for all intents and purposes.. . .As CNBC's liberal economist Steve Liesman, admitted "The workforce declined by 315 thousand and that makes it easier to get to the lower unemployment rate.")


Read more: Unemployment in the real world is 15.6%

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[Aqua Teen Carl]

Originally Posted by Scott2187

Why does no one ever discuss the REAL unemployment rate, which is 15.6%??

Jobless Numbers Offer Little To Cheer About - Investors.com

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Yup, no one actually wants to talk about this since it looks awful for our country. What's the best way to change the outlook of unemployment? Why, we'll just change the way it's calculated in our favor!

Imagine if we did that with other stats: "Well there's a whole lot of homeless people out there, the stats don't look good for our country. Let's consider people homeless if they've never been in doors ever in their life, that will do the trick!"

[BrianTH]

First of all, attributing the differences in the various unemployment rates to some conspiracy on behalf of the current administration is ridiculous--these different measures have been defined and reported in this way since WAY before the current administration. And for whatever reason, U3 has always been the headline unemployment rate--maybe that is not justifiable, but again the current administration did not originate that practice.

Second, I'm fine with tracking multiple unemployment rates, but then you have to make sure you are being consistent. For example, if you want to track U6, that's fine, but then you might note that U6 went from 15.6 in November 2011 to 15.2 in December 2011, which was down from 16.6 in December 2010:

Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

Of course that isn't an objectively good number--you'd want to see a U6 around 8 to signify full employment:



Nonetheless, as with U3, the trend is in the right direction, although I personally agree with the economists who believe our public policies could be doing more to reduce unemployment.

[Aqua Teen Carl]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

U6 went from 15.6 in November 2011 to 15.2 in December 2011, which was down from 16.6 in December 2010:

Good! No one is actually going to knock real employment gains in America. We'll take that 0.4% monthly gain any day. What I'm saying is that disingenuous reporting of the real numbers is something that shouldn't be encouraged by our government. The U6 numbers should be put at the forefront, not the BS U3 numbers regardless of what administration is in office.