Unemployment rates usually only count those looking for jobs. The disabled,
mentally ill, etc. do not usually look for work. They live off family, or
welfare, or disability payments from the govt. I know a lot of highly
educated, hardworking, intelligent people who cannot find any kind of job.
There is a huge number of unemployed university grads where I live,
including myself. Many of us have been unemployed for YEARS at a stretch, we
apply for hundreds of jobs and never even get an interview. There just
aren't enough jobs for the number of people in the world.
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Chris Crawford
Fine Art Photography
Fort Wayne, Indiana
260-747-3962
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On 5/4/09 3:45 AM, "Andrew Fildes" <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Has it occurred that about 3-5% of the population is unemployed
> because they are fundamentally unemployable? The mad, the bad and the
> sad; the challenged in oh so many ways. I have encountered in a
> classroom a small proportion who no-one in their right mind would
> ever employ. Unfortunately, at one point, that included my Principal
> but that is a quite different story.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 04/05/2009, at 7:53 AM, James R wrote:
>
>> From my rather thin knowledge it strikes me that even in good
>> times unemployment is typically stuck at a minimum rate of about 5
>> percent and rises a good deal in times such as we are living through
>> now. Having those in employment working long hours just reduces the
>> overall number of jobs the system can support, which surely must
>> increase unemployment and therefore the tax load on those employed.
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