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fasttense

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22. I went back to the BLS and I can't seem to find that number again.

Sun Nov 17, 2013, 02:30 PM

Nov 2013

Weird, I was trying to get the number of all unemployed people in the US. I now get 11,272,000 but that's not everyone that's just those they "count" as unemployed. That is not the number I was looking for. I think I must have slipped into an alternate universe for a moment. Or I just read it wrong.

Well, anyway, I was trying to get to that idea of not letting random individual suffer constant unemployment but we share it all among everyone. Yes, reducing work hours would be a way of doing that.

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� I�ve also been told point-blank to my face, �We don�t hire the unemployed.� [View all] kpete Nov 2013 OP

I have not, but my husband has pretty much seen exactly that. Added to that the fact he is 57. Mass Nov 2013 #1

I got an email from a recruiter that made it clear that anyone Kahuna Nov 2013 #2

Definitely. enlightenment Nov 2013 #27

And that is illegal - Ms. Toad Nov 2013 #32

There has to be a business model out there Turbineguy Nov 2013 #3

Unfortunately BumRushDaShow Nov 2013 #5

I worked for a company like that FreeJoe Nov 2013 #36

on a positve note, they're mandated to buy health insurance they cant afford to pay for KG Nov 2013 #4

At least they can blame the Republicans for it n/t Fumesucker Nov 2013 #6

Can't have those health insurance CEOs suffer any financial hardship, now can we? SammyWinstonJack Nov 2013 #8

This is not new-- we've seen it before, usually... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #7

birth rate decline will be offset by immigration Enrique Nov 2013 #9

Exactly right. And this will result in a disaster. Can you see boomersense Nov 2013 #11

Where in the TPP does it say that our employment discrimination laws treestar Nov 2013 #18

It doesn't-- just another talking point... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #24

Of course immigration will-- that's the natural order of things... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #28

About 13.8% of the US is unemployed. fasttense Nov 2013 #12

The population of the United States is around 317 million people. SheilaT Nov 2013 #17

I went back to the BLS and I can't seem to find that number again. fasttense Nov 2013 #22

The problem with going in blindly and looking up numbers without a background... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #30

That's been experimented with in Europe... TreasonousBastard Nov 2013 #26

Aside from the obvious math error, FreeJoe Nov 2013 #40

that's fucked up gopiscrap Nov 2013 #10

If only the job creators MythosMaster Nov 2013 #13

I'd rather see them taxed on unused funds dickthegrouch Nov 2013 #14

why do they need that as incentive? treestar Nov 2013 #16

I have a suspicion . . . Brigid Nov 2013 #19

That swooshing noise you heard MythosMaster Nov 2013 #20

Sometimes you need to use the emotion treestar Nov 2013 #21

Sometimes you need to use common sense. MythosMaster Nov 2013 #23

And yet money for the poor only make THEM indolent.. annabanana Nov 2013 #29

Wonder how right wingers respond to that treestar Nov 2013 #15

Billionaires don't care= Politicians don't care. WinkyDink Nov 2013 #25

My current job ends at the end of the year and I understand the need to find a job before I'm out of kimbutgar Nov 2013 #31

You may get lucky. Ms. Toad Nov 2013 #34

Unemployed for two years - this is what I did MsFlorida Nov 2013 #33

Good for you! Ms. Toad Nov 2013 #37

It is a catch-22 FreeJoe Nov 2013 #35

I know hiring - from most all industries MsFlorida Nov 2013 #38

Retirement age needs to be lowered, not raised. truebluegreen Nov 2013 #39

You don't get hired in most places if you worked a job represented buy a union either n/t doc03 Nov 2013 #41