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Report: Nearly 50 percent of Detroit's working-age population is unemployed
MLive ^ | 12/16/09 | Jonathan Oosting

Posted on 12/16/2009 11:41:24 AM PST by Nachum

The unemployment rate in Detroit fell slightly last month to 27 percent, according to preliminary data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

But that official figure may not tell the whole story.

The Detroit News, using a broader definition of unemployment, reports that as many as 45 percent of the working-age Detroiters are without full-time employment.

(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: detroit; population; unemployed; workingage
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1 posted on 12/16/2009 11:41:26 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Where is all of that ‘Obama-money’?


2 posted on 12/16/2009 11:42:20 AM PST by lesko
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To: Nachum

How many were on welfare before, 45% anyway.


3 posted on 12/16/2009 11:43:00 AM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: lesko

I remember the lady saying “it be Obama money.”

Where did he get it? “from his stash.”

What a nightmare. Liberalism.


4 posted on 12/16/2009 11:45:43 AM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: Nachum

I wonder what percnt of that 50% is Democrat, near 100 I expect.


5 posted on 12/16/2009 11:46:13 AM PST by dblshot
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To: Nachum

Yet Michistan voted for their muzzie brother, Hussein 0bama.


6 posted on 12/16/2009 11:46:13 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Pork Eating CRUSADER - FUBO! Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Nachum

So why stay? Everybody in this lousy town should pack up an leave. Staying makes no sense.


7 posted on 12/16/2009 11:46:15 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Nachum

“Nearly 50 percent of Detroit’s working-age population is unemployed.”

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And near 100% of those like it that way.

Its a cultural thing.


8 posted on 12/16/2009 11:46:42 AM PST by EyeGuy
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To: Frantzie

Dems and liberals should be furious that $6 million of stimulus went to Hillary’s pollster but it’s just easier to blame Bush and racism I suppose for the hopelessness in Detroit.


9 posted on 12/16/2009 11:47:03 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: Nachum
Detroit was once a great and proud city. I know people who remember the city it was between 1945 and 1965. It wasn't always such a terrible place. I wonder what happened? (sarcasm)

And oh by the way, how that hope and change working out for all you from Detriot (Detroit intentionally spelled wrong).
10 posted on 12/16/2009 11:47:35 AM PST by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: Nachum

So then, what’s John Conyers and his charming wife doing about this mountain of unemployed people? Aren’t they for the people? I’ve always heard they were. Gosh. How can this happen?


11 posted on 12/16/2009 11:47:49 AM PST by RexBeach ("Those are my principles...if you don't like them, I have others." Groucho Marx)
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To: Nachum

Don’t look now, but America is fast becoming Detroit.


12 posted on 12/16/2009 11:48:33 AM PST by pallis
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“So why stay? Everybody in this lousy town should pack up an leave. Staying makes no sense.”

I don’t understand it either.


13 posted on 12/16/2009 11:48:52 AM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: Nachum

Starnesville has come to life.


14 posted on 12/16/2009 11:51:05 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Nachum

I’m sure that between all the handouts including food stamps, unemployment checks, etc. that they are enjoying the vacation. Cut off unemployment and they will riot. I wonder how many are getting help from the unions? I’m sure King Obama will come to their help.


15 posted on 12/16/2009 11:51:16 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Nachum

Jennifer Granholm - stand up and be counted!


16 posted on 12/16/2009 11:51:35 AM PST by reaganrevolutionin2010
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To: pepsionice

“So why stay? Everybody in this lousy town should pack up an leave. Staying makes no sense”.

On behalf of those of us in other parts of Michigan; please, by all means STAY IN DETROIT.. we don’t want you inflicting your “culture” on us.


17 posted on 12/16/2009 11:53:19 AM PST by bella1 (Four years of Carter gave us eight years of Reagan.)
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To: DonaldC

Nooooo! Don’t encourage them to leave. I don’t want them infecting the rest of the country for Chrisesakes. Better would be to build a fence around the cesspool and force them to live in the mess that they’ve made.


18 posted on 12/16/2009 11:54:07 AM PST by technically right
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To: Nachum

So how many of these “unemployed” would take a job if it was offered to them? Or is it “racist” to ask?


19 posted on 12/16/2009 11:54:43 AM PST by ozzymandus
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To: pallis
Your post needed shouting!

Don’t look now, but America is fast becoming Detroit.
20 posted on 12/16/2009 11:59:28 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Obama, Hitler, Stalin: Who are 3 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.)
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