whoa, a number geek's garden of delights!
re- 15.Unemployment rates for adult men, adult women, and teenagers + 17.Unemployment rates for persons 25 years and older by educational attainment: What you & I would see is that women and degreed workers fared much better during the crisis than did everyone else. I'm expecting some pundit to take the same data and post headlines like: "BLS admits recovery hardest on women and degreed workers as unemployment for everyone else falls much faster..."
re- 18.Persons not in the labor force who want a job: With the definitions they're using it's looking like the recession only saw an increase of a million. So when we look at the total not working it means that w/ the '08 election 15 million employees suddenly decided that they did not want a job any more. Believe it or not I've actually had liberals try to tell me that --I kid you not!
2) Small data set but I have a few friends who have relatives that have said, "why would I want to work when I'm getting all this stuff for free?"
