Yeah, we’re only 1% above what most economists would consider “full employment” (~5% UE)
Doncha feel it?
Feels just like the days of the late 90’s when IT folks could job hop to increase their salary because there was so much demand.
/intense sarcasm
All of us here, at least I suspect all of us here know that unemployment is hovering around 25% AND 20% of all households have no resident in that household that has a job, whether parent or child.
20% of households are jobless.
Can’t even get my arms around that. My grandparents could. It was called the “Great Depression”.