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Ron Obvious

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6. That's why the unemployment numbers don't tell the whole story

Reply to rfranklin (Original post)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 11:45 AM

Feb 2012

This is why I never find the unemployment or job growth numbers very interesting. If an out-of-work engineer or laid-off construction worker finally accepts a job at Walmart to make ends meet at a fraction of what he used to make, the statistics consider this a like for like job. It isn't.

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U.S. job quality is in trouble [View all] rfranklin Feb 2012 OP

du rec. nt xchrom Feb 2012 #1

The 1% wont be happy until ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2012 #2

Better yet, if they could bring wages in line with other Western Hemisphere countries....like Haiti rfranklin Feb 2012 #3

And they had the vigorous backing of the US Agency for International Development and the US Embassy" ProfessionalLeftist Feb 2012 #4

Leveling the playing field CAPHAVOC Feb 2012 #7

US job quality has been in trouble for a while now. Brigid Feb 2012 #5

That's why the unemployment numbers don't tell the whole story Ron Obvious Feb 2012 #6

For years, I think white collar workers thought "COMPETE!" only applied to blue collar workers. Romulox Feb 2012 #8

why do you have it in for white collar workers? flexnor Feb 2012 #9

Wages have been stagnate for blue collars workers for 30 years. This is just catch up. Romulox Feb 2012 #10

'We've been told for 30 years that white collar jobs would replace the blue collar jobs' flexnor Feb 2012 #11

As a white collar worker, I heard it plenty of times from my companions. Zalatix Feb 2012 #12

well there is some truth to that, and look where it got them flexnor Feb 2012 #13

Yup, a rising tide lifts all yachts. Zalatix Feb 2012 #14

the managerial/professional salaried 'exempt' classification is the biggest screw job of all flexnor Feb 2012 #15