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There are 100 million people out of work in the US

ecofarm said:
I'm asking why the military is included but not tenured professors at public schools.
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But the military are not included in the population, and academics are.



Regarding the article, which is not about the unemployment rate? And the military has tens of thousands leave and arrive every year. Regarding the article, they're certainly "in work".
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I still have no idea what article is being talked about. Can you give a link since RDS refuses?

Once someone leaves the military, they enter the population. But that's no free exit: you can't just decide to leave and they can't just fire you. Including the military add a stable number of employed not affected by market forces.
 
pinqy said:
But the military are not included in the population, and academics are.
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What I'm saying is, unemployment calculations aside, why would the article not include the military as "working adults".

I still have no idea what article is being talked about. Can you give a link since RDS refuses?
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It's in the OP. His recent post I've no idea about.

Once someone leaves the military, they enter the population. But that's no free exit: you can't just decide to leave and they can't just fire you. Including the military add a stable number of employed not affected by market forces.
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Well, the military downsizes and thus offers early retirement and other incentives to leave. This is generally an economy based thing.

Anyway, I was referring to whether or not they're included among the article's "not working'' but I see now that number is derived via different methods than unemployment and is not a %.
 
ecofarm said:
I hope you're thinking of me!

Let's see...

"100 Million Americans Out of Work: Media Praises Unemployment Dropping to Lowest Since 2008"


Persons under 18 years 23.1%
Persons 65 years and over, 14.5%
USA QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau

So... total: 37.6%

Let's call it a third, leaving 200m people. If 100m of THOSE are unemployed, we have an unemployment rate of 50%.

Yeah, businessinsider... BS as usual. People, before taking a blog seriously at least consider the title.
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Umm... let's see.. 37.6% of 300 million is over a third of that 300 million, or more than the 100 million unemployed.

and it's not 100 million looking for work. It's 100 million, or about a third of the country that is not working.

mostly because they're retired or are minors.

Some of those over 65 must still be working, then.
And some of those under 18 have already entered the work force.
 
reason10 said:
Let's get a little more realistic.

Suppose 5 percent of that number is handicapped and unable to work. It leaves 95 percent.

Let's say about 30 percent have decided to quit looking and just live on food stamps. That brings us down to 75 percent.

Let's say about 10 percent are lazy ****ing assholes who never planned to work and just want to download baby after baby and lose the father. (You liberals WANT that number to be lower.)

That leaves 65 percent of America who want work who are OUT OF WORK.

(I say that because most old farts do NOT want to spend their lives watching Wheel of Fortune every night. They want to work.)

So we're looking at 65 percent unemployment. And the current Obama employment stats OVERLOOK that 65 percent or they just count them as employed.

So we elect Donald Trump. About a half a million new manufacturing jobs come to America in three years. We've kicked out pretty much ALL the slave-wage illegal alien fruit pickers from the Sanctuary Cities.

Now that 65 percent has a job.

And along the way, we tell those welfare bums to get off their fat lazy asses and get to work because they are CUT OFF from the federal teat.

Soon after, that 30 percent who had given up looking for a job decide that life WITH a job beats sitting home in the geeto dodging drive by bullets. So they wind up at the new automobile plants.

What all this leaves out is the fact that 90 PERCENT of the country WANTS A JOB. They may be handicapped but they want to work. They may be very old but they want something to do. Only that 10 percent of useless welfare bums DON'T want to work.

Truthfully, either scenario is easily fixed. Just remember not to elect any more Democrats to the Presidency or Congress. That's what put 100 million people out of work in the first place.
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SO, 100 - 5 - 30 - 10 = 65.....

To simplify for you, 100 - 45 = 65, right?

You are aware that 100 - 45 = 55, yes?

Looks like your math skills need additional assistance.
 
ecofarm said:
What I'm saying is, unemployment calculations aside, why would the article not include the military as "working adults".
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Because Military are excluded from all labor force statistics, so there's no good way to include them.



Well, the military downsizes and thus offers early retirement and other incentives to leave. This is generally an economy based thing.
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To a degree. But it's not anywhere like the private sector or even civilian government employees.
 
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