(July 8, 2014 at 9:49 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:(July 8, 2014 at 9:42 pm)Blackout Wrote: Yeah we're having a lack of young population crisis, it has been lasting for 10/20 years, but I guess with unemployment near 20% it's safe to not bring kids into such misery. I'm glad I can still consider myself middle class, it's a rare thing nowadays, kinda like being born black with blond hair.
We hovered at around 10% unemployment while the rest of the country "recovered", so to speak. Actual numbers were higher of course - they stop counting you when you stop looking.
20%? Fuck, that's horrible. I can't even imagine. I'm lucky, I've managed to stay employed during every recession during my adult life, if you except the times when I was young and not really that interested in working.
Some statistics show a 1% improvement and so on... This is fallacious because the only people who count as unemployed are the ones registered in social security, plus adding the people emigrating it's logical that with less population the percentage of unemployment will seem lower. We aren't actually at 20%, Spain is a lot worse, but if we counted retired people (a lot), people who don't look for jobs and are not registered in social security as unemployed, people who live on welfare, illegal immigrants, and people who stopped receiving unemployment pension because it only lasts for 2 years, I'd corroborate one of my professors' views that basically we have 1/2 or 1/3 of the population working for the remaining people. If we calculated the real unemployment rate it would be worse than 20%, and I'm not even counting people in temporary jobs that can lose their position anytime
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