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HiPointDem

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15. last i heard there were 4 people looking for every job opening. UE = 7.8% and underemployment

Reply to Cleita (Reply #14)

Sun Feb 24, 2013, 04:27 PM

Feb 2013

(people working less than they want/outside their field) is even higher.

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_&met_y=unemployment_rate&idim=country:US&fdim_y=seasonality:S&dl=en&hl=en&q=unemployment%20rate

not to mention the stats on labor force participation rate, which show a big decline, and not just among oldsters who may be retiring -- among young people in particular.

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"$16.50/hour would be min wage if it had kept pace with the rest of the economy" [View all] midnight Feb 2013 OP

Minimum wage raised to 9.00 by 2015 midnight Feb 2013 #1

"Thirty million workers are making less today than they did in 1968, adjusted for inflation!” midnight Feb 2013 #2

It's pathetic that OP's like this get almost no interest on a supposedly liberal board n/t Fumesucker Feb 2013 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author datasuspect Feb 2013 #4

I wondered about that too... midnight Feb 2013 #5

As someone who makes close to this wage, I'd only be offended if my wage did not increase as well Nikia Feb 2013 #6

Perhaps both you and the minimum wage worker are being underpaid? white_wolf Feb 2013 #8

What if everybody got paid the same? ThomThom Feb 2013 #20

Most jobs pay based on replacement value Nikia Feb 2013 #27

people need to get over the ego thing and get satifaction from the job not the pay ThomThom Feb 2013 #29

Wages wages wages ... Trajan Feb 2013 #7

A point I have been trying to make for years. In my area, because the Cleita Feb 2013 #9

yes! all our big local non-profits as well as some of our gov't (the library) are using slave labor HiPointDem Feb 2013 #11

Ah, c'mon! Volunteers for non-profits are what they are. Cleita Feb 2013 #13

They're not volunteers. It's forced labor. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #16

Those are not volunteers. They are court-mandated. That is slave labor IMHO and Cleita Feb 2013 #18

that's what i said in the first place. homeless shelters get government money & have all along. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #19

See my post #21. It was meant for you. n/t Cleita Feb 2013 #22

I remember a discussion years ago on DU about whether government funds Cleita Feb 2013 #21

or maybe we should just go back to pre-reagan policies so we wouldn't have mass homelessness HiPointDem Feb 2013 #32

I agree with everything except calling underpaying people a form of 'slavery. You present pampango Feb 2013 #23

That's because you are thinking of forced slavery like the Romans did. Cleita Feb 2013 #24

Again I agree with much of that, but think that using the term 'slave' to describe underpaying pampango Feb 2013 #25

If you don't use the word, it gives those employers permission to keep Cleita Feb 2013 #26

I agree with your goal and that calling underpaid labor 'slave labor' helps achieve it. pampango Feb 2013 #30

Except that I'm not misusing it. When we talk about labor in China or the Marianna Cleita Feb 2013 #31

This is my response to the Food-Stamp President meme the RW is fond of bhikkhu Feb 2013 #10

it's partly because people aren't working, though -- i.e. not enough jobs. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #12

There are jobs. President Obama even laid out how people could be put to work Cleita Feb 2013 #14

last i heard there were 4 people looking for every job opening. UE = 7.8% and underemployment HiPointDem Feb 2013 #15

12-27 million looking for work bhikkhu Feb 2013 #17

K&R Solly Mack Feb 2013 #28

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