itfitzme
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You want simple, fine. I know many people who were working three years ago that still have no job.
I don't want simple. Ed wants simple.
I want detailed, precise, accurate, comprehensive, and correct.
How old are they?
What is their marital status?
What were they doing before they got laid off?
What is their education level?
Male or female?
Where do they live?
More importantly;
What is it that they are finding to be the problem with getting hired?
What is their story?
Simplistic aggregate numbers don't tell us what is going on, only where to look.
Here we got this amazing technology, where people from across the country can tell the story. Here we have educations that would land us a management job in 1920. Here we have encyclopedias full of information that exceeds our local libraries when we were in high school. Here we have all this computing power, sitting on our laps, that would have run the entire city payroll system in the '70s. And all we get on this forum is what we can already get by going to the BLS and BEA website.
Try telling us something we don't already know.
I respect that, There is a resolving tool called the 5 whys, check it out. It helps to find a way to locate the root cause in a problem
I know WTF?
ck it out
The one number I found that pin points the problem is the % of employed to population ratio
It is the same it was in the last 12 months and maybe beyond
People leaving the work force is driving the UE # down
Ck out this link, god only knows how much info it will give you
Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age
That isn't what I asked.
You have no clue the breadth and depth of my education, experience, and intelligence. You have no clue the tools I have.
I told you what I wanted to hear from you, the story of the many people that you know have been unemployed for three years.
If I wanted that link, I'd have asked you for it.