Employment

[redandguilty]

I was looking at the employment rate and I'm not convinced that unemployment (and disability) is as big of a deal as the quality of jobs. The percentage of the country that's employed is just a tick higher than the average of the original 15 EU members. And while it was higher in the 90's, it's probably not far off from our 50-year average.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment-to-population_ratio

I do buy into the idea that the middle class is hollowing out and I'm even in favor of the government pumping money into roads and bridges in a big way to improve employment numbers, but that might not address the real issue since unemployment doesn't seem to be dramatically out of whack.

 

[Michchamp]

I believe they also count the underemployed as "employed."

and yeah, "any job" may not be good enough when you've got kids to feed, bills, debt, student loans, and it offers little to no possibility of advancement.

Krugman has stated that one effective way to spend money would simply be to hire back all the teachers, firemen, cops, clerks, building / health inspectors, etc. that they laid off over the last couple year. no need to even go further than that!

of course, those people will go back to teaching kids science, putting out fires, investigating crime, and fining companies for shoddy work and unsafe products... and that's communism. we just can't have that.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I believe they also count the underemployed as "employed."

and yeah, "any job" may not be good enough when you've got kids to feed, bills, debt, student loans, and it offers little to no possibility of advancement.

Krugman has stated that one effective way to spend money would simply be to hire back all the teachers, firemen, cops, clerks, building / health inspectors, etc. that they laid off over the last couple year. no need to even go further than that!

of course, those people will go back to teaching kids science, putting out fires, investigating crime, and fining companies for shoddy work and unsafe products... and that's communism. we just can't have that.

Krugman?

Paul Krugman?

Paul Krugman, with the beard?

Paul Krugman, with the beard, who's obsessed with that chick that ran for Vice President on the McCain ticket (I seriously couldn't remember her name without looking it up on the internet)?

That Paul Krugman?

Oh, and by the way, science should never be taught in public schools without the notion that it can co-exist within the concept of creationism.

 

[redandguilty]

Paul Krugman, with the beard, who's obsessed with that chick that ran for Vice President on the McCain ticket (I seriously couldn't remember her name without looking it up on the internet)?

I appreciate this.

 

[Michchamp]

huh. look at that pic you found

 

[redandguilty]

Oh, and by the way, science should never be taught in public schools without the notion that it can co-exist within the concept of creationism.

Now that we think Adam and Eve didn't even know each other, I'm really starting to get confused.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/08/02/genetic-adam-and-eve-uncovered/

Despite their overlap in time, ancient "Adam" and ancient "Eve" probably didn't even live near each other, let alone mate.
"Those two people didn't know each other," said Melissa Wilson Sayres, a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the study.

 

[Michchamp]

if this oard consisted of just us three... it would still be pretty entertaining.