If you account for retirees, there are ...
If you account for retirees, there are still around 21m adults in the US who are either looking for work or have just given up.
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If you account for retirees, there are still around 21m adults in the US who are either looking for work or have just given up.
People who have stopped looking for work - including those who have given up - aren't counted in unemployment figures.
@cogdog Approximately 0.75.
@erinjo You're right. It's pretty puninteresting.
These poor people who just see jokes everywhere. It's like they have punnelvision.
@adamamyl @jdforrester Most importantly: none of this makes us an iota safer. The only thing that might is a more peaceful foreign policy.
@nayafia A Medium publication could work?
@adamamyl There were some very astute thoughts on media relations coming out of 1930s-era Germany that are very much in practice today.
@adamamyl Perception really is everything. It's weird watching the things I really loved about the UK - its chaotic freedom - being eroded.
@adamamyl Exactly. At the time I remember being irritated that the bins were gone. Innocent times.
@adamamyl It's such a striking difference to the Britain I grew up in. The IRA were literally on a bombing campaign; none of this.
@nayafia I would love to see these pieces collated somewhere. Please keep going!