A Surprising Statistic About The Long-Term Unemployed (Breaking them down by education)

The long-tern unemployed are people who have been unemployed at least a year, and as you can see (and as you should know by know), the scale of the problem these days is way bigger than it has been during any other period over the last half a century.

What's interesting is that the population that makes up the long-term unemployed is very different than the unemployed population as a whole.

Check out this breakdown of the unemployed and long-term unemployed by level of education.

Those who have just a high-school diploma, or less than a high-school diploma are vastly over-represented among the unemployed (the red bar) but among the long-term unemployed (the blue bars), they're rather under-represented. In fact, the Less Than High-School category is the lowest among the long-term unemployed.

The answer to that can be explained by this chart, probably, which shows the age of the long-term unemployed.

Business and government conspired to move manufacturing mostly to Communist China for cheap labor and high near-term profits for CEOS and some stockholders.

A nation that closes factories and mines in favor of service jobs is headed to dependency at best and collapse at worst.

Even Reagan tried to sell us the BS that the economy would be fine as America moved from the smokestack era to the service economy .He and others claimed it was no more troubling than the earlier shift from an agricultural based nation to a manufacturing one;except they were wrong. The farmers and the factory workers both added great value to raw materials,whereas service workers just shift the existing wealth from place to place.

A janitor keeps the factory cleaner and therefore safer but a factory with nothing but janitors (or managers) will soon close.

If the factories had increased their output per worker in the ratio as did the farmers then the loss of factory jobs would be less troubling as the money would still be circulating in America not going to China.

That America has literally no domestic electronics industry, and a host of others gone is the problem.And the demise of American industry can be blamed on bad public policies.

On the other, you have left wing globalists who hate the very idea of America and Americans, and the concept of national borders as a whole. Destroying wide swathes of industry and employment is just dandy for them, all the more government dependency, all the less vested more and more become, bringing their evergreen hope of Revolution!, which has been just around the corner to then for my entire life, just a little closer, increment by increment.

The two are involved in s symbiotic relationship, and the object of their machinations is the American middle class, the working people just wanting a stable, safe environment to live out their lives, something better to leave their children, a brighter future, or at least one as bright as the future they had themselves.

Birds of prey, carrion birds, the lot of them, circling, circling. The stupidity is far greater among the putative conservatives in that crowd. I hope they enjoy their extra pennies for the short while they'll be permitted that luxury, the self absorbed fools.

On the one hand we have right wing globalists, whose loyalty lies with corporate balance sheets and share price by far and away over the viability of their own nation, that made their wealth accumulation possible. They’d sell their own mother for a price. Unfettered influx of unskilled labor is cheered and rewarded, laws be damned and societal costs, what’s that? So long as they’re profiting what’s to complain about, you fringe nativist whiners? You’re overpaid, go to trade school or something.
On the other, you have left wing globalists who hate the very idea of America and Americans, and the concept of national borders as a whole. Destroying wide swathes of industry and employment is just dandy for them, all the more government dependency, all the less vested more and more become, bringing their evergreen hope of Revolution!, which has been just around the corner to then for my entire life, just a little closer, increment by increment.

Great summation. You nailed it!

This is too obvious. The more pertinent, specilized skill and training you have, the less competition you will face for any given job opening. The less competition, the sooner you are selected for a position.

So if registered nurse or registered professional engineer loses their job, they go back into the job hunt facing a tiny sliver of competition from just new and experienced registered people in their field. When a bank clerk or tax preparer loses his job, he has to compete with every young, attractive competitor with a gift of gab that is showing drive and hustle. Good luck competing with that. Wouldn't you rather have a masters degree in Chemical Engineering or Environmental Science? I know I would.

On the one hand we have right wing globalists ... On the other, you have left wing globalists

Too simplistic.

What you describe in not "right" vs. "left." It is all "left." Whether it is pure socialism -- government ownership + government control = Communism, or Fascist derivatives of socialism like, say, Naziism -- nominally private/corporatist welfare, by definition these are all manifestations of degrees of "leftism."

Constitional republican democracy is the "right." WE are "The Right".

Your model provides no opposition to leftism, only leftism as a "given."

Global trade where the US is the most dominant player on the block is what we had post WWII and for a generation therafter. Almost lost that position with Carter 1977 -1981. Reasserted American dominance when we won the Cold War and new representative capitalisitic democracies emerged in the 1990's everywhere.

China's revolution in Tiannmen Square in 1990 signaled to them what captalistic "animal spirits" were out there that would eventually topple the Commies for sure and for good unless they compromised in a Fascistic direction, which is what passes for Capitalism in China today.

America was en route to paying down its debt, 1994 - 2001. Deficits were shrinking. Keyenian economics of debt fueled prosperity was being turned on its ear when Bush II ascended to power -- peace dividend per Reagan, and dissolution of the USSR and all that.

Then 9-11 happened and a war footing that has been in motion for 11 years following. Bush II in war and failing to defend his actions and unable to make his case for it by 2006 Congress flips Congress The(D)'s ascend in both Houses of Congress in 2007, and there is the beginning of the end of post-Cold War debt retirement.

The powers behind powers couldn't have an America ascending higher even as it was now steadily paying down its debt, when it has been the intention of those same powers to have a one-world economy which knows no borders and is dominated only by a select group of shadowy power brokers.

Debt catching up (Fannie & Freddie), a $5T rug pulled out from under the US economy over night on September 18, 2008 by power brokers -- still not yet fully ID'd, and $1B untraceable foreign money poured into a Dem campaign gave us Obama.

Obama's handlers have done all they can to make sure we become more indebted to economies of China and EU, bailing out obligations of the EU through TARP (i.e., $1T US debt to cover losses while Goldman Sachs gobbled thing up and Bear Stearn fails) and PIIGS debt crisis management -- hence $5T in debt in the space of 3.5 years, socialistic Obamacare rammed down our throats to make certain we are never as competitve an economy as we once were.

WE are the RIGHT. We are at a turning point where we are forever to be indebted to European banks, and Fascist US economy trading with Fascist Chinese and EU trading big boys sending all their risks to the plebian taxpayers, monoploists and environmentalists screwing our asses to the wall as the sheiks jack up the oil to influence ME policy,...

OR, WE the RIGHT decide to throw out the bastards this fall, take down the oil monopoly, and the banking slavers and remake America into the beacon of freedom it was founded to be.

FReegards!

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