Posted on 07/05/2023 4:53:46 PM PDT by george76
I’m one of them. Beed retired for over nine years now and have no plans on ever working again.
Does this include illegals?
Excellent point. I always point out that these statistics related to “working-age Americans not working” are a joke ... because the Bureau of Labor Statistics includes RETIREES as “working-age Americans” as long as they are not imprisoned or institutionalized.
I can’t walk into a store or restaurant without seeing a “Help Wanted” sign by the entrance.
What is going to happen to our banking system as trillions of dollars worth of commercial real estate loans go bad?
So a global director of business development at a software company didn't have any money put aside, and one month after being let go, they have to decide between food and dish soap?
Always have to go behind any ratio. Find out what is in the numerator and what is in the denominator. Unemployment rate has to be among the worst.
How many able bodied people are being paid by the government to sit idle at home?
And I think almost half of these 105 million rotate begging at various traffic intersections around my area!
France
First off, retirees are not supposed to be working—I am, in part because I like it and in part because I need it (thank you Joe). That number would be much lower if the SocSec age people were not included.
Second, I would guess that if we were to go back to, say, 1910, there would be a similar chunk of adult working-age people who would not be working—except that they would really be working, just in the kitchen and the backyard garden and the wringer washer and the homework table.
1.8 million Americans have turned down jobs due to unemployment benefits..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3976057/posts
Wow! So why is this sick evil POS administration encouraging third world male invaders to continue to trample on our soil if there are no jobs? You can only have so many gardeners and fruit and vegetable pickers…WHAT IS THE REASON? For one purpose and one purpose alone! Substitute America for France at the present..…just a thought!
They’re hiring at your local McDonald’s or Starbucks.
So, subtracting people who did well enough to retire early and others, we have many millions of bums living in mom’s basement. Dangerous bums potentially. Idle hands are the devil’s playground.
My husband applied for twenty jobs last year… jobs no one in there right mind would accept.. no takers.
In times of economic downturn employers will attrition people out and go lean. But.. I have seen restaurants close for several usual hours of the day instead of hiring help.
It appears we are in real trouble… but employers are holding out for… AI.
Reminder.. AI won’t be paying SS taxes, which is going to sink the Marxists ship and take us under with it.
If our government ever intended to give us a full accounting of the employment picture in the US, they’d include a few other categories in their labor statistics.
1. Working age Americans not working and receiving public assistance.
2. Homemakers in a working, tax paying family.
3. Working age Americans not working due to physical or mental disabilities.
And, of course, there are the familiar categories of those working and the unemployed, but seeking work. And there are other useful categories.
The stats are probably readily available and our government could give a full accounting of the working age population, if they so desired. And it would tell us a lot more than the current labor statistics that are released.
Im one of them too.
But the can’t find something appropriate for me. Sigh
And getting someone to respond?
Nigh impossible.
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