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> I mean, I can understand voting for the other guy 'cause you don't have a job... but unemployment, by just about all measures, has been going down for about a
by moduspol 10y ago
> I mean, I can understand voting for the other guy 'cause you don't have a job... but unemployment, by just about all measures, has been going down for about all of the time that Obama has been in office.
The unemployment rate only includes people actively seeking work. One often-toted statistic is that men have been dropping out of the labor market completely (i.e. not looking for work at all) at higher-than-normal rates. These are quite possibly also people who were Trump voters.
- clavalle 10y agoWell, one unemployment rate only includes people actively seeking work -- the most popularly reported one. The other unemployment rates that do count people that dropped out have been falling at nearly the same rate.
- moduspol 10y agoThis suggests otherwise: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/20/as-low-skilled-jobs-disappear-men-drop-out-of-the-workforce/ http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/06/20/as-low-skilled-job...