Not exact matches
You might recall Fed Vice-Chair Janet Yellen discussing at length the numerous pitfalls
of the headline unemployment rate, which doesn't count the discouraged workers who've dropped
out of the labour
force, those who've stopped looking for work but say they would still like to have a job, and those who would like to work full - time but could only find part - time
employment.
Unemployment, measured in a different survey, edged down to 7.7 % from 7.9 % in January and, for once, not just because more Americans gave up the job search: 170,000 said they had found
employment, meaning those who dropped
out of the labour
force were less than half the total.
Instead, the downtick in the headline
employment number is due to job seekers becoming so discouraged that they stop looking for work and drop
out of the labour
force measurement all together.
In a note to clients on the ADP report, Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist
of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, said, «
Employment wouldn't be growing this strongly unless companies were able to find workers among the unemployed or draw on those
out of the labor
force.»
In The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution
of Social Order, Francis Fukuyama says our society went seriously
out of whack in the 1960s, chiefly because
of the change in sexual roles and in
employment patterns
forced by the rise
of the information revolution.
If Cuomo were serious about «bringing effective change to State government» he'd be dismantling redundant Authorities and consolidating agencies while sending the parasitic top management bureaucrats who infest them
out in the street to seek private sector
employment, where they belong,
forcing the sale
of all those SUVs issued to bigwigs at the Office
of Children and Family Services to get more money into the State's coffers, and implementing other radical cost - cutting measures.
While depression may
force affected workers
out of active
employment at higher rates, it is also true that those who become unemployed are more likely to show signs
of depression — three times more likely, according to a 2010 NIH study.
Abigail Perry, author
of Frugality for Depressives, had already been formally diagnosed with depression as a part
of a bipolar disorder when unrelated chronic fatigue
forced her
out of traditional
employment.
It is emphasized in the game that Sarah is the unhappy result
of economic
forces out of her control, like stagnant wages and insecure
employment.
Putting aside biases against
employment gaps and the priorities reflected in opting
out of the work
force, how much does the work change in five years?
An automotive technician named Paul came to the charity, Modest Needs, last year after a disability
forced him
out of full - time
employment, causing him to face eviction from his home.
Participation in paid
employment presents the best prospects for improving income and opportunities,
forcing more and more parents
out of the home and into the labour
force.
Although the recovery from the 2008 - 09 recession has produced more than six million jobs, total
employment remains about two million jobs below its pre-recession peak and nearly 12 million Americans remain
out of work (7.4 percent
of the labor
force).
The key issue in 2018 is whether these people return to the labor
force, boosting
employment growth but keeping wages in check, or remain
out of the labor
force, allowing wage pressures to build?