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This is from 2013 so in terms of recovery years it is a bit dated... But the first three questions all posit that unemployment was rising, and that reemploymen

This is from 2013 so in terms of recovery years it is a bit dated... But the first three questions all posit that unemployment was rising, and that reemployment was not occurring which is(and was) belied by this graph -https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

mikepurvis 10y ago
Does that one graph really tell the whole story? Things not captured here include: - underemployment, like law school grads working in book stores because no lawyer needs a clerk now that computers do the research for them. - contractors vs. part time vs. full time. I've seen it asserted that we've lost a lot of salaried positions in favour of contractor arrangements (gig economy) or shift work. - people who've transitioned from unemployed to being on long-term Medicaid—I don't believe they count as "unemployed", but various mental illness issues can be caused or made worse by being long-term out of work.