Percentage of adult working population is at lowest level in 15 years.
By on Nov 7th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Percentage of adult working population is at lowest level in 15 years.
According to The New York Times, “the share of adults who are working — 61.8 percent — is at its lowest level in 15 years…The share of adult men with jobs, which has been gradually falling for much of the last few decades, is now at its lowest level since a two-month period in early 1983.” October was the tenth consecutive month in which jobs declined. The U.S. has shed 1.2 million jobs in 2008.
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A “Center-R(R)ight” Country…
… Heck of a job, if you still have one!!!
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November 7th, 2008 at 1:57 pmThe Republicans and their Democratic enablers have done big business’ bidding for 30 years now.
How’s that working out for everyone?
November 7th, 2008 at 1:58 pmAs a bohemian myself let me be the first to congratulate them . Now they will have time to blog , think , and take their autonomies back from the grasp of their corporate overlords .
November 7th, 2008 at 1:58 pm/ half snark
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November 7th, 2008 at 2:01 pmRabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun and founder of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, has the honor of being the first member of the “religious left” to lambast the new President.
This was no mistake on Emanuel’s part. Rahm Emanuel has a long history of militarist ideology behind him. His father was a member of the ultra-right-wing terrorist organization Etzel that killed British civilians as part of their anti-British struggle in Palestine in the 1940s. Emanuel, himself a citizen of Israel as well as the United States, has been one of several Congressional leaders enforcing the “Israel Lobby” concensus on the Democrats, in the process shutting out the peace voices that believe Israel’s security would be better served by the U.S. putting pressure on Israel to end the Occupation, move the Wall to inside the pre-67 boundaries, and remove the settlers from the West Bank or tell them to live there as Palestinian citizens.
Nice. By the time I’m dead (born ‘66) Republicans will have shittied up my entire trip through life. I’m afraid the occasinal Clinton or Obama isn’t going to be enough to change that.
Thanks, *ssholes.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:01 pmFreedom and justice for all people , whatever their skin color , religion , ethnicity or country .
November 7th, 2008 at 2:06 pmgod bless everyone ….no exceptions .
#5tombaker-Don’t count out the next generation-or mine for that matter(born ‘64), because I AM raising my daughters to make a difference in their corner of the world and they are definitely taking it to heart, and I am delighted to say that their friends are trending that way, too. We will NEVER give in to a defeatist attitude or religious nutjobs without a fight.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:19 pmThe legacy of George W. Bush.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:22 pmWell, that segued right into our unemployment being the highest it has ever been in 15 years. I hate my job and really want to find something else. But, I am staying put right now. I don’t want to end up “low man on the totem pole” right now.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pmThe “official” rate is close to 7%, and will get there next year.
The “real” rate is close to 10% and climbing…
The economy “lost” another 250K jobs last month alone…
November 7th, 2008 at 2:35 pmWell, that segued right into our unemployment being the highest it has ever been in 15 years. I hate my job and really want to find something else. But, I am staying put right now. I don’t want to end up “low man on the totem pole” right now.
November 7th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
that’s got a name in labor economics: “Labor Discipline.” management enforces discipline by the mere existence of a big unemployed pool. People suck it up rather than take a chance in a new job, even if the hate the one they’re now in…
Capitalism REQUIRES a large pool of unemployed to enforce “discipline” on workers…
November 7th, 2008 at 2:37 pmThe share of adult men with jobs….
Shouldn’t that be “adult persons” [or "people"]?
Cheers,
November 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pmWe’re going to see these numbers get worse in the next two months as all the neo-con trolls get laid off.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:00 pmzuch Says:
The share of adult men with jobs….
Shouldn’t that be “adult persons” [or “people”]?
Cheers,
November 7th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
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No, they’re talking specifically about men in the New York Times story. Including women in the metric throws off the long term statistic, as there was a much smaller percentage of women in the workplace 15-20 years ago. If you want to compare apples to apples, you need to look at the percentage of men working only.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:21 pmthe brown acid @ # 13 says:
But wait and see. The trolls will say getting laid off was their own fault, praise Crapitalism, pray to the Big Daddy in the Sky and call every act passed by Congress intended to assist the workingclass and preserve the country crypto-Islamic Afro-Leninism.
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November 7th, 2008 at 3:29 pmRemember the good old days when a topic like this would bring out three, maybe four trolls trying to derail the topic and claiming that the economy was showing “strong growth” or saying Clinton Did It™ ?
yeah, those were some good times for Troll-Whacking.
November 7th, 2008 at 3:43 pmralph,
The meme “Go get a job, you hippie” mostlikely applies to themselves, it seems. Oh, by the way, it will soon apply to the Bush White House staff, too.
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November 7th, 2008 at 4:46 pmI wouldn’t feel sorry for the Bush white house being out of work. If they aren’t set up for life with trust funds, they have speaking engagements to look forward to, or are lawyers who are never out of work. The rest will be absorbed into right-wing think-tanks. None of them will struggle to find a job.
November 7th, 2008 at 7:48 pm