The country's unemployment figures are way out of whack.
They're too high.
But I don't see news coverage of this at all.
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They're too high.
But I don't see news coverage of this at all.
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
The news isn't covering a lot of things at the moment.....but I won't get into those here....
Hi! I had never been on Twitter before Reader's Digest posted a link to what funny people librarians can be and I just thought of you guys.
They're really too low.
As far as some getting too much, we faced a choice - get it out fast or create an unholy bureaucracy that would take months on end to deal with paperwork designed to prove that the amount given was the amount deserved.
Every solution generates a problem. To me getting money in people's hands quickly and for a limited time was very much better than creating a monstrous bureaucracy that might start sending out checks in 2022.
Every solution generates a problem. To me getting money in people's hands quickly and for a limited time was very much better than creating a monstrous bureaucracy that might start sending out checks in 2022.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Yup. Uncle Sam gives me in one week what I made in two doing case management. Now I make about what I would driving if I didn't have expenses.
We're funny pseudo-librarians?
No, because of 2 things....
1) Many are working under the table. I know some.
2) Many are refusing work.
This makes the number too high.
On the other side are the discouraged who have stopped looking and are not being counted.
I was, in fact, thinking of the difference between U3 which people focus on and U6. Does the Government Lie About Unemployment?
If government uses a particular method on a continuing basis, & we
see the new phenomenon of employees refusing to return to work,
but applying for unemployment bennies, then this change presents
a misleading picture. The number is higher than what we expect
it to measure, ie, people looking for jobs, but not finding them.
(It now includes many people who have jobs.)
I even know of one employee who is both working and collecting
unemployment benefits. There is much fraud.
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You know of one and assume "much fraud". Vagueness and use of only a tiny sample to me is an almost fact-free assertion and thus not at all valuable.
You mis-read my post.
I know of one who is a working employee collecting unemployment.
I also know of more of other kinds of fraud.
And then there are reports in the news.
You sure do tend to presume things which paint the picture you want.
But the question is....
Why do you want the unemployment numbers to be high?
Do you relish economic collapse?
Is it because you believe it will help defeat Trump?
I've stated what I observed.
You've simply objected....which is worse than "vague".
Well, as we get to the halfway point of the year 2020, I'm hoping that the second half of the year is better than the first.
But it's an election year, and as we get closer and closer to November, the political ads will only become more numerous and more strident.
Apart from everything else about how obnoxious some of these ads are, most of them have no real creativity. No imagination goes into them - just the same tired old format.
But it's an election year, and as we get closer and closer to November, the political ads will only become more numerous and more strident.
Apart from everything else about how obnoxious some of these ads are, most of them have no real creativity. No imagination goes into them - just the same tired old format.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Not everyone's cup of tea, but this song has a very seductive and hyponotic flow.
Good luck with that.
