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What are your plans for the weekend?
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From the AFL-CIO: “While the official unemployment rate is 8.8 percent, it’s 15.7 percent if unemployed, underemployed and those who have given up looking for work are included—more than 24 million people. The economy needs to add about 150,000 new jobs each month to keep up with the growth in the labor force. But to lower the nation’s unemployment rate to 6 percent by 2013 and make up for the more than 7 million jobs lost due to the recession, the economy needs to add 350,000 jobs a month.
Young people and people of color continue to experience the worst jobless rates which have remained high, with 24.5 percent of teenagers out of work and 15.5 percent of black workers and 11.3 percent of Hispanics jobless. Some 7.9 percent of white workers are jobless, as are 7.1 percent of Asian workers.”
Only 45.4% of Americans had jobs in 2010, the lowest rate since 1983 and down from a peak of 49.3% in 2000. Last year, just 66.8% of men had jobs, the lowest on record. In 2010, North Carolina only had 40.5% of its population working.
With summer approaching, many high school kids will be seeking jobs for some extra spending money. Will there be jobs available in Henderson?
hoping to get some yard and garden work done.
put up some birdhouses.
FYI for those interested:
The Hummingbirds are here.
not wanting to go along with the ALF-CIO, but unemployment figures don’t give a truthful picture of how many people are not working…
it doesn’t include those who want to work but have given up looking for a job.,
and it doesn’t reflect the numbers of the people who won’t take a job making less then they did and opt to accept extended unemployment benefits, or those rather be on the dole then work at any job.
The stats of job gains are deceptive, too. Most of the jobs that were “created” are government jobs, supported by shrinking tax dollars.
You’ve touched on a very important issue; summer jobs for our youth. In my youth (YEARS ago!) a summer job was always easy to find. Baby sitting was every girls source of extra money. Paper routes existed. We learned the value of work and the ethics that attend. How do we expect our youth to learn job responsibility when there are so few jobs for them? We can’t really expect the work ethic to be learned without the opportunity to experience what work is. Our unemployment rate is not only hindering entire families, it is hindering our future workforce. Something has GOT to change!