88 Million Working Age Americans Out Of Work

According to this article, 88 million Americans of working age are out of work.

How can this be with unemployment figures falling?

It is because the figures do not take into account those who are not trying to find a job, or have quit trying to find a job.

Read more here.

Here is a longer article that mentions the same 88 million figure.

And here is a video which explains how the government reaches its figures, or, in the vernacular of common parlance ”cooks the books”.

 

You can read here some personal stories about people who have lost their jobs and stopped looking.

Here are some figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.




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