Unemployment
Labor Day: For Tony, with Appreciation and Respect
We immerse ourselves in facts and figures; turning real life suffering into an abstraction. The official unemployment rate is 9.6 percent in the United States. Estimates vary about the additional unemployed who have given up looking for a job. Some say the real number could exceed 15 percent. The unemployment for black youths in America aged 16 to 19 is 44 percent. Yes, 44 percent. That's the official number. These are scary numbers. But only when real people get attached to the statistics, does the reality settle in.
Labor Day: For Tony, with Appreciation and Respect
Submitted by John Fullerton on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 10:39pmWe immerse ourselves in facts and figures; turning real life suffering into an abstraction. The official unemployment rate is 9.6 percent in the United States. Estimates vary about the additional unemployed who have given up looking for a job. Some say the real number could exceed 15 percent. The unemployment for black youths in America aged 16 to 19 is 44 percent. Yes, 44 percent. That's the official number. These are scary numbers. But only when real people get attached to the statistics, does the reality settle in.
