Posted on 07/22/2023 12:24:59 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Britain has a historically low unemployment rate of 3.6%. Yet poverty levels are breaking all records. It’s a paradoxical situation: almost 15 million Britons are considered poor these days, although there’s almost full employment. The reason: inflation and high energy costs.
Galloping inflation and a dramatic spike in energy costs in recent months are forcing millions of Britons into poverty. Wages fluctuate in an "uberized” working world of precarious employment conditions. Over the past 10 years, beginning with David Cameron, the government has scaled back its support to vulnerable members of society. The result: reduced life expectancy. Disadvantaged Britons are dying 10 years sooner than their wealthier compatriots - victims of what’s become known as the "shit life syndrome” - a life marked by poor living conditions, disease and addiction.
The documentary profiles people who have a job but can still afford nothing - from Blackpool in the west, to Ashton-under-Lyne and Cumbria, on the border with Scotland.
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In the US unemployment is based on those “in the work force”.Unemployment rate is kept low by intentionally defining people as not in the workforce. When Trump took office in 2017 the number not in the workforce suddenly dropped and those in the workforce increased.
For over a decade the number in the Rustbelt workforce has declined and in Red state has increased.
All that to ask, how is unemployment and other terms defined in other countries?
Their leaders hate white people.
Because they went along with lockdowns and haven’t executed the perpetrators.
This isn’t a problem because they can always eat bugs.
Here’s another reason...
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