These are phony stats. Many people have gone into early retirement and don’t appear as unemployed.
Eliminate welfare and program EBT cards to work only on rice and beans, a complete protein.
Watch the obesity problem go away.
Homeless encampments are nationwide. The biggest culprits are governments. That is local governments. A national government won’t solve it unless the left gives them one.
“These are phony stats. Many people have gone into early retirement and don’t appear as unemployed.”
Also they have trimmed down who they report as unemployed. People who haven’t worked in X months, (don’t recall the number) are no longer reported. People who are under employed or part time when they want to be full time, are not counted. There are a few other categories who have been eliminated since they started reporting in the previous century.
As a point of interest, economists say that when the legitimate number of unemployed reaches less than four percent then we are “overemployed.” This is because there’s a percentage of people who are, for various reasons, not employable. They are dangerously stupid or have personality defects that lead to loss of customers. Twice in my career a dangerously stupid person caused thousands of dollars in losses. One, a stock clerk, asked someone what the pipe going down the back of the stairs was for. It was the automatic fire system. When the sensor detects flame it sets off the alarm. Before anyone could stop him, he flicked his lighter under the sensor. It wasn’t a zone system. The entire store was flooded. The other in an aerospace facility. An employee looked at the pile of zirconium shavings from a machining process, read the sign, “Danger keep flame away,” and flicked his lighter to see if the stuff would burn. Yep. Had to evacuate a million square foot facility and rebuild part of the machine shop. Not to mention all the smoke damage. Both were too stupid and dangerous to employ, and, at the time, we had extremely low unemployment. Both had given ample warning of how stupid and dangerous they were, but management didn’t take action because they needed the help.