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How is a young person with little or no work experience and no college education "underemployed"? That is basically the least qualified group possible.
by jhamburger 16y ago
How is a young person with little or no work experience and no college education "underemployed"? That is basically the least qualified group possible.
- potatolicious 16y agoLeast qualified for what? In previous decades young people with little work experience and no college education had a solid blue-collar track available to them. Nowadays, not so much.
- jhamburger 16y agoMy point is if you're lucky enough to get a solid union unskilled blue-collar job, great. If you get stuck doing a similar job without a union for much less money, that sucks but it isn't underemployment.
- sprout 16y agoI suppose, but it will cause deflation, and whatever you want to call that deflationary pressure, we're getting dangerously close to it.
- _delirium 16y agoBy definition, someone who wants full-time work but is unable to find it is "underemployed". It's not really a value judgment about whether they deserve more employment or anything, just a statistical category tracking people who cannot find a full-time job (much like "unemployment" is a category tracking people who cannot find any job at all).