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So why should we not include children of all ages and retied people as well then? They are also unemployed. The reason you don't include full time students is
by ecmascript 6y ago
So why should we not include children of all ages and retied people as well then? They are also unemployed.
The reason you don't include full time students is the same for children and retired people. They are on their way to becoming productive citizens or have done their part for society.
- claudeganon 6y agoMany full time students are employed throughout college. As someone who attended the state colleges my family could afford, most students had part time employment and many were working full time.
- jlokier 6y agoWhat about retired people who aren't really retired, they are just drawing on their pension sooner than they'd like, as a desperate alternative to employment money to lengthen their rental runway to homelessness? Or they are drawing on a pension while doing food delivery gigs on the side to top it up to pay for essentials? I'd suggest a useful definition of "unemployed" for the purpose of evaluating if there's a problem is: "needs a job but can't get one". That covers retired-but-not-really people, and students who need to work for a living at the same time but are between jobs. But not children, or students with enough to live on from their parents.