By: AverageJoe
That’s an incredibly ugly number. There were societal reasons why the employment rate was low in the 50s and 60s. To be approaching those numbers again helps explain EXACTLY why people don’t feel great...
View ArticleBy: American Debt Project
The first time I saw this number was in USA today last year some time and it was much lower, around 54%. I wonder why? But in any case, I think this number makes sense. Is this the legal population of...
View ArticleBy: PK
Societal meaning “the man works, the woman stays home”? I mean, in theory, I wouldn’t mind if people chose not to work – but that carries with it the fact that they would have to choose it (not be...
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Sure you didn’t see 59%? Maybe it was a different ratio – we haven’t been that low since the 50s (that’s a good thing). Here’s what that number entails. I wish we could get data on all of those black...
View ArticleBy: freeby50
Great topic. In that chart we can see a large drop in the ratio around 2008-2009 when the recession hit. Since then it has stabilized. THe employment-population ratio is going to be impacted by two...
View ArticleBy: PK
I think your new article covers most of the decline, but let me get back to you on another treatment of this. As I mentioned on your site, 12 months is the cutoff – and I think it was originally...
View ArticleBy: Bret @ Hope to Prosper
I was 17 years old in the early 80s and it was very difficult to find a job. During the Jimmy Carter recession, it took me six months to get a job as a boxboy and I showed up twice a week, looking for...
View ArticleBy: Carnival of Personal Finance #376 The #LifeAWARE Edition | moneyrabbit.info
[...] from Don’t Quit Your Day Job… presents Revisiting the Employment-Population Ratio, August 2012 Edition!, and says, “Coming back to the Employment-Population Ratio, which has been depressed since...
View ArticleBy: PK
I noticed ‘rebound effects from real estate bubble’ curiously missing, haha. I agree – it’s too long now to blame everything on late 2008. And, worse, calling this the ‘new normal’ is absurd too.
View ArticleBy: Piles of Interestingness: FinCon12 Flight Reading Material - American...
[...] & Sons (just had a ring to it) revisited the Employment-Population ratio. Always a metric that I like to look at and think about what the other 41% are doing…and [...]
View ArticleBy: AverageJoe
That’s an incredibly ugly number. There were societal reasons why the employment rate was low in the 50s and 60s. To be approaching those numbers again helps explain EXACTLY why people don’t feel great...
View ArticleBy: American Debt Project
The first time I saw this number was in USA today last year some time and it was much lower, around 54%. I wonder why? But in any case, I think this number makes sense. Is this the legal population of...
View ArticleBy: PK
Societal meaning “the man works, the woman stays home”? I mean, in theory, I wouldn’t mind if people chose not to work – but that carries with it the fact that they would have to choose it (not be...
View ArticleBy: PK
Sure you didn’t see 59%? Maybe it was a different ratio – we haven’t been that low since the 50s (that’s a good thing). Here’s what that number entails. I wish we could get data on all of those black...
View ArticleBy: freeby50
Great topic. In that chart we can see a large drop in the ratio around 2008-2009 when the recession hit. Since then it has stabilized. THe employment-population ratio is going to be impacted by two...
View ArticleBy: PK
I think your new article covers most of the decline, but let me get back to you on another treatment of this. As I mentioned on your site, 12 months is the cutoff – and I think it was originally...
View ArticleBy: Bret @ Hope to Prosper
I was 17 years old in the early 80s and it was very difficult to find a job. During the Jimmy Carter recession, it took me six months to get a job as a boxboy and I showed up twice a week, looking for...
View ArticleBy: Carnival of Personal Finance #376 The #LifeAWARE Edition | moneyrabbit.info
[...] from Don’t Quit Your Day Job… presents Revisiting the Employment-Population Ratio, August 2012 Edition!, and says, “Coming back to the Employment-Population Ratio, which has been depressed since...
View ArticleBy: PK
I noticed ‘rebound effects from real estate bubble’ curiously missing, haha. I agree – it’s too long now to blame everything on late 2008. And, worse, calling this the ‘new normal’ is absurd too.
View ArticleBy: Piles of Interestingness: FinCon12 Flight Reading Material - American...
[...] & Sons (just had a ring to it) revisited the Employment-Population ratio. Always a metric that I like to look at and think about what the other 41% are doing…and [...]
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