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According to this months US employment figures, 36.3% of the working age population (16-64) are neither employed nor seeking work. This includes students, house
by peter303 4y ago
According to this months US employment figures, 36.3% of the working age population (16-64) are neither employed nor seeking work. This includes students, housewives, disabled, financially independent, etc. So good fraction of the population has avoided the puritanical work-all-the-time ethic.
If you spread out the work hours evenly, everyone would work about 25 hours a week.
If you add in the young and elder, the percentage of non-working people in the US rises to 52%.
- perth 4y agoI feel as though this is skewed by the fact that US college students can’t really pay for their college with a job and rely heavily on loans for the younger portion of their life (typically up until 22). I’d be curious to see the statistics for the ages of 22-55, aka, post college when many students are drowning in loans and before the beginning of when people begin to retire.