[Lurker]

U-6, the “real” unemployment rate, May 2012: 14.8%.

[Carriage Hill]

Holy carp: look at this...

http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/real-unemployment-rate-22-5/

22.5%

[Squantos]

14.8%.... Damn.

[combat_boots]

My folks were hitting adulthood when GD I hit. My sainted mother had to quit college and move to go to a trade school. My maternal grandfather apparently was lucky to have work one day a week. At my mother's folks' house, hobos and out of work people would climb a hill and go to the back door of the little clapboard house, asking for food--and were fed. My maternal grandmother took in wash, sewed for people, took in boarders and cleaned to keep the house and food on the table. It changed my folks' worlds like no other single event in their lives ever did again.