History of the Great Depression

reply to post by Dbriefed


Thanks Debriefed,
That’s a good chart, I’ve seen it before. Its hard to explain to people that only about half the population is working and the other halve (retired and handicapped excluded)are living off the backs of the ones breaking there ass every day.

reply to post by In nothing we trust


Total unemployment, plus all marginally attached workers, plus employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers as of January 8 2010 it is---------17.3%

NOTE: Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and
are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached,
have given a job-market related reason for not looking currently for a job. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those
who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule. For more information, see "BLS intro-
duces new range of alternative unemployment measures," in the October 1995 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. Updated population con-
trols are introduced annually with the release of January data.

It's been 2 years now.

How's the depression comming along?