singular_me
5th May 2010, 04:12 PM
getting ugly and uglier
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Tier V Unemployment Extension Legislation Shackled by Politics
May 04, 2010 10:22
The official national unemployment rate - U-3 according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics - sits at 9.7%. The broader measure, U-6, which includes those discouraged to find work in the short-term, forced part-time workers, and other "marginally attached" workers is right around 17%. Alternate data over at Shadow Government Statistics, which includes "long-term discouraged workers," is just under 22%. Twenty-two percent!
http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978216338
Long-Term Unemployment: 80 Percent Of People Jobless Last Summer Still Out Of Work 05- 4-10 12:40 PM
Of more than a thousand unemployed people surveyed by Rutgers University researchers last August, just 21 percent had landed a job by March, a followup survey reveals. Two-thirds remained "unemployed" according to the government's definition -- the rest gave up looking for work altogether, either going to school or retiring early.
"It's a pretty grim study," said Cliff Zukin, one of the authors of the report at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/04/long-term-unemployment-80_n_562493.html
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Tier V Unemployment Extension Legislation Shackled by Politics
May 04, 2010 10:22
The official national unemployment rate - U-3 according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics - sits at 9.7%. The broader measure, U-6, which includes those discouraged to find work in the short-term, forced part-time workers, and other "marginally attached" workers is right around 17%. Alternate data over at Shadow Government Statistics, which includes "long-term discouraged workers," is just under 22%. Twenty-two percent!
http://politics.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978216338
Long-Term Unemployment: 80 Percent Of People Jobless Last Summer Still Out Of Work 05- 4-10 12:40 PM
Of more than a thousand unemployed people surveyed by Rutgers University researchers last August, just 21 percent had landed a job by March, a followup survey reveals. Two-thirds remained "unemployed" according to the government's definition -- the rest gave up looking for work altogether, either going to school or retiring early.
"It's a pretty grim study," said Cliff Zukin, one of the authors of the report at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/04/long-term-unemployment-80_n_562493.html