Interesting analysis by Pew Research.
How does this correlate with your experiences?
Fewer young people want a job?
Fewer women than men want a job?
Or, something else?
Uno
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Interesting analysis by Pew Research.By far the biggest chunk of people not in the labor force are people who simply don’t want to be, according to data from the monthly Current Population Survey (which the BLS uses to, among other things, calculate the unemployment rate.) Last month, according to BLS, 85.9 million adults didn’t want a job ...
The share of 16- to 24-year-olds saying they didn’t want a job rose from an average 29.5% in 2000 to an average 39.4% over the first 10 months of this year. There was a much smaller increase among prime working-age adults (ages 25 to 54) over that period. And among people aged 55 and up, the share saying they didn’t want a job actually fell, to an average 58.2% this year.
People 55 and over do, as you might expect, account for more than half of the 85.9 million adults (as of October) who say they don’t want a job — about the same percentage as in 2000. But the 16-to-24 share has edged higher...
Women are more likely than men to say they don’t want a job...Last month, 28.5% of men said they didn’t want a job... For women, the share saying they didn’t want a job hovered around 38% throughout the 2000s but began creeping up in 2010, reaching 40.2% last month.
When employers are out to grind you into dust and you're going to need government assistance to survive even if you have a job, why bother looking?
Get some skills and aim a little higher than Walmart and minimum wage.
When people are raised with an entitlement mentality that they are owed things and don't have to earn them, it's going to be reflected in the percentage of people that actually want a job. Why get a job or earn your keep? More and more just feel like they should just get stuff, just because.
Get some skills and aim a little higher than Walmart and minimum wage.
Interesting.
I wonder how many non "marginally attached" are going to school and if that's part of the reason. I wonder how many aren't looking because they feel the pay for their skill isn't worth it?
The federal government spends so much money, and regulates so many businesses, that there is nothing left for a business owner. He's taxed, and regulated to hell and back.
Therefore his employees suffer. He has to get them as efficient as possible, to try and make a profit. He works them to the bone, but makes sure their hours are just under federal full-time regulations, so he doesn't have to insure them.
Fuck Government.
I don't want to work for you too.
-John
Take, for instance, their profit margins. On average, small businesses reported a net profit margin of 5.2 percent in 2007, prior to the collapse, according to data compiled by financial services firm Sageworks. Not surprisingly, their margins thinned to less than 4 percent in 2008 and 2009, slightly below the average for companies of all sizes.
Over the past four years, though, the average small company’s profit margin has gained back ground every year. In 2013, it climbed all the way up to 8.5 percent, higher even than the average net profit margin for all companies (8.2 percent).
The Commerce Department last week estimated that corporations earned $2.1 trillion during 2013, and paid $419 billion in corporate taxes. The after-tax profit of $1.7 trillion amounted to 10 percent of gross domestic product during the year, the first full year it has been that high. In 2012, it was 9.7 percent, itself a record.
Alot. Everyone has been brain washed into thinking real work = for suckers.
Many HIDE in school explicitly because I suppose deep down they know they won't get a job or feel they aren't prepared for the workforce so of course the answer is more school and more debt. This ties in with the student loan economic WMD playing out like a slow motion trainwreck.
I saw a job that required my type of degree but involved quite a bit of labor (in a chemical manufacturing plant) and I was like well if you gotta do what you gotta do that jobs not so bad (paid decent like $20/hr starting, was just sort of dangerous) and my classmate was like... you have to wear a respirator? Shouldn't they get like immigrants to do it or something?
The Commerce Department also said total wages and salaries last year amounted to $7.1 trillion, or 42.5 percent of the entire economy. That was down from 42.6 percent in 2012 and was lower than in any year previously measured.
What claim did I make? Fuck face?
I presented an answer to the ops question.
You can continue to mire in the mud, and attack answers, but stop talking like you bring the truth.
-John
Gee I wonder why they would think that?
Profits up!
Taxes paid, down!
Employes compensation, down!
Apparently someone is a sucker.
Okay so everyone is struggling to survive in light of greedy and powerful corporations. Time to kick back on my Sony PS4 and play some EA madden, munch on some Doritos and drink mountain dew. Thats how you survive for sure. Cause I'm sure you're making a ton of real life contacts who will drop their destiny grind in a moments notice and drive 2,500 miles to you and help their bro legolas329847 out.
When employers are out to grind you into dust and you're going to need government assistance to survive even if you have a job, why bother looking?
Eventually the parents dieHey I never said it was a smart move. Most young people I know live at home anyway so what exactly are they losing?
Get some skills and aim a little higher than Walmart and minimum wage.