Scariest Unemployment Graph

[Annie]

The graph is at the link.


The Scariest Unemployment Graph I've Seen Yet - Business - The Atlantic

The Scariest Unemployment Graph I've Seen Yet
By Derek Thompson

The median duration of unemployment is higher today than any time in the last 50 years. That's an understatement. It is more than twice as high today than any time in the last 50 years.

OK, you're saying, but what does this mean? Does it mean we must increase the duration of unemployment benefits to protect this new class of unemployed, or does it mean we need to stop subsidizing joblessness? Does it mean we need to expand federal retraining programs, or does it mean federal retraining programs aren't working? Does it mean we need more stimulus, more state aid, more infrastructure projects, more public works ... or does it mean it's time to stop everything, stand back and let business be business?

You're going to find smart people make a case for all six of the above public policy directions. (I tend to side with the first of each coupling.) It's hard to know for sure how to design public policy for historically unique crises precisely because they are historical orphans, without precedent to show us the right way from the wrong.

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[topspin]

it's going to get worse before it gets better, it's called globalization. As the unskilled jobs go overseas the unskilled labor are making huge mistakes waiting on jobs that are not coming back. If thier were ever a time where the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer it's now.

 

[Truthmatters]

Thanks neocons

 

[topspin]

end the wars and put that money in free college