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The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more) was essentially unchanged at 2.0 million in August. These individuals accounted for 26.1 percent of the unemployed.
Both the labor force participation rate, at 62.8 percent, and the employment-population ratio, at 59.7 percent, were unchanged in August. The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was little changed at 6.1 million in August. These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.
In August, 1.7 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, about the same as a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. Among the marginally attached, there were 576,000 discouraged workers in August, little different from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 1.1 million persons marginally attached to the labor force in August had not searched for work for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities.
why does Hillary keep saying if she's elected one of her main goals is to boost the economy and create more jobs?
originally posted by: windword
Key phrase is more jobs. Kids are graduating high school and college, and entering the jobs market. Women, who have been taking care of their children who are now in school, can go back to work. People are living longer and/or their 401K just tanked! There's always reasons and a need to expand the job market.
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: WUNK22
why does Hillary keep saying if she's elected one of her main goals is to boost the economy and create more jobs?
Key phrase is more jobs. Kids are graduating high school and college, and entering the jobs market. Women, who have been taking care of their children who are now in school, can go back to work. People are living longer and/or their 401K just tanked! There's always reasons and a need to expand the job market.
originally posted by: crazyewok
Best way to fix unemployment is to improve education.
originally posted by: anonentity
The ideal situation for the employers is the total casualisation of labour which we are actually seeing.No hours of work gurranted in the contract, which means only the best workers will be called in to do the work.So they have got the workers competing against themselves in a tawdry way.The ones with the power have dispensed with any social responsibility,in fact they want to profit from the fallout, with regards to privatising,prisons etc.The dumber the people get the more they get exploited.This leads to escape from the system with drugs, which again they profit from in one way or another.Then you have an explosion of frustration violence in its many forms, school shootings, and sense less other things, even the cops get in on the act.This is mainly an Americn thing,because of its pure Capitalist control system, but its a control system, which is spreading, the social chaos is evident. The only question is how long can this system last without violent change.