Do we know what the unemployment rate is now?
The real rate is about 15%.
U6 numbers as of July 2, 2009 have gone from 10.3% to 16.5% in one short years time!
U6 accounts for the folks below, as well as the newly unemployed. Basically it lumps together EVERYONE that’s without a job, or those WITH part-time jobs who are ready, willing and able to work full time:
“Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past.
Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached,
have given a job-market related reason for not looking currently for a job. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule.”
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm
No jobs, no prospect of jobs, no recovery. The Porkulus Bill didn’t create a SINGLE job that can be seen. Porkulus II won’t do a d@mn thing but completely seal the fate of our kids and grandkids as endentured slaves to Government.
It’s really pretty simple.