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  • From: "Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] that's a city !
  • Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 18:39:55 -0700

James thought :
> Like this: In and area there were 92 people who had jobs and 8 applicants
for unemployment ... 100 people in the workforce. So the unemployment rate
is 8%.

But now they sample the population and determine that in that area
there are 160 people who are of the age and condition to work and they COULD
work if they were of a mind to and the same 8 people are applying for
benefits, so the unemployment rate is now 5%. The population and number of
unemployed are the same in both cases.

Does this take into consideration the number of
people who have *run out* of unemployment -
because how can anybody tell *and add to the
figure* except the people who aren't working ?

And how about those that are working *two* jobs,
*each* for minimum wage or *less* but working
nevertheless because work is better than 'charity'
(or other "methods" of "earning" such as pushing
drugs, burglary/robbery/other forms of theft/
prostitution) and being *counted* as two *people*
employed because there are two *jobs* filled .... ???

As for samples - samples are what leads to
clothing manufacturers advertising "one size
fits all" .... yeah. Right. From an ethereal
Misses 6 to an overpowering Woman's 5X ...




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