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WaldoKitty · 04-10-2015, 02:31 AM

Unemployment is ~25%-30% if calculated like it was during Carter's days. It's still done this way by Shadow Stats.

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BentBow · 04-10-2015, 06:34 AM

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Originally Posted by springazure

Let's see.... I WAS unemployed as of New Years Eve. Didn't get this new job until Jan 19th. So I was unemployed during those 3 wks, but the weeks between final paycheck and new paycheck was pretty painful.

My old paychecks were averaging $800/every 2 wks. New job is averaging $500/every 2 wk paycheck. I live alone and the dog doesn't pay rent. So YEP.... this is a huge financial HURT!

Because I live in ILL.... and don't met all the requirements (ILL is strapped trying to pay for all those Governers in PRISON)... I'm not eligible for a darn thing!

You can't really consider me UN employed. But I am most certainly considered UNDER employed! I'm barely making ends meet.... it's not pretty!

Come on down to Texas. I can pay you $1000 a week once you are trained. With a raise in a years to $1500 a week.
This is hard construction work.

pch1013 · 04-10-2015, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by TimTheEnchanter

No because those comparisons use the same U-3 number. I'd use the U-6 for both.

TX U-6 is 9.9%, CA is 15.2%. U-3 is TX 5.0, CA 7.5.

Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States

But the entire premise of this thread is that no government-provided unemployment figures can be trusted.

Finn_Jarber · 04-10-2015, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by urbanlife78

Really reaching with this one. The real unemployment is not 59%.

If you count babies, school kids, the sick, the retired then it would be significantly higher than 5.6%.

Clark Park · 04-10-2015, 05:00 PM

Everybody I know is working. Neighbors, relatives, friends, people I come in contact with ... they are all working.

I am working.

The picture was very different in 2008.

greywar · 04-10-2015, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Clark Park

Everybody I know is working. Neighbors, relatives, friends, people I come in contact with ... they are all working.

I am working.

The picture was very different in 2008.

2009'ish was bad for me and my neighbors.

Today....im working,as are my neighbors. A few people are still struggling to find work though today. but not like before. A lot more temp work too.