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Giving up: 40% women, 28% men, 39% youth don't want a job
Washington Examiner ^
| November 14, 2014
| Paul Bedard
Posted on 11/14/2014 7:28:35 AM PST by george76
Nearly four in 10 Americans, or 92 million, are not in the labor force and now theres a reason why: They have simply given up and dont want to work.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the largest group of people not in the labor force are those who dont want a job, a remarkable statement on the nations work ethic. The federal job counter said that 85.9 million adults last month didnt want a job, or 93 percent of all adults not in the labor force.
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Pew said that 39 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds dont want to work, up from 29 percent in 2000.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bls; blsstatistics; economy; jobs; laborforce; unemployment
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:28:35 AM PST
by
george76
To: george76
I don’t want to work either. Am I a sucker for doing 60+ hour weeks in this new, modern era?
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:29:27 AM PST
by
Crazieman
(Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
To: george76
It’s past time to go Galt.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:29:51 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: george76
For crying out loud.
People are giving up. We need to bring jobs back to America.
To: Cringing Negativism Network
To: george76
Liberals have killed the American work ethic. These people don’t want to contribute anything to society but want others to support them.
Fewer and fewer workers are supporting more and more parasites.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:32:01 AM PST
by
detective
To: george76
That’s a fine kettle of fish, Ollie. No work, plenty benefits, and paying no taxes. Money going out, not coming in. Even stupid Democrats ought to be able to figure out that this is no way to run a country.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:32:28 AM PST
by
txrefugee
To: george76
2Th 3:10
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:32:48 AM PST
by
Safrguns
(PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
To: george76
For you know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a disorderly way among you, nor did we eat food received free from anyone. On the contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked, so as not to burden any of you.d 9 Not that we do not have the right. Rather, we wanted to present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might imitate us. In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat. (2 Thess 3:7-10)
BTW, a full time housewife is working.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:33:31 AM PST
by
Petrosius
To: george76
“I just want to bang on the drum all day.”
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:34:00 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: george76
0bama has has redefined “safety-net” to “mother’s womb”.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:34:36 AM PST
by
shove_it
(The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen -- Dennis Prager)
To: Safrguns
You beat me by 43 seconds! : )
To: george76
Are more likely reason is that the BLS statistics are lies: they want the unemployment rate to appear much lower than it is.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:35:57 AM PST
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
To: shove_it
0bama has has redefined safety-net to mothers womb. This is more the image.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:36:35 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
To: detective
Fewer and fewer workers are supporting more and more parasites.
Most of the those youths are still living off their parents rather than the public. So they are still in the larval stage.
To: Common Sense 101
We need to bring jobs back to America.He's is correct. We need trade tariffs now. 10% ought to do it.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:37:05 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Common Sense 101
I will not shut up.
America now runs somewhere along the lines of 300 billion dollars in trade deficit with China, every single year.
We are building up our own next adversary. China now has the world’s second largest defense budget.
We need to rebuild AMERICA. Step buying everything from China.
To: Common Sense 101
Finding enough jobs for its people is the top priority for every country in the world but ours.
Our policies are designed to bring down the cost of labor (standard of living) for the majority of it citizens by whatever means possible.
Sorry you can’ see that.
To: george76
What is missing from the article is how the people not willing to work manage to survive? How many are living in their parents' basements? How many are getting unemployment benefits? Disability? Other government handouts?
The next set of questions is how many of these people are working in the gray market? The black market? Organized crime? Gangs?
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:38:27 AM PST
by
asinclair
(Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Some people don’t want to work and are reaping the benefits big time.
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posted on
11/14/2014 7:39:30 AM PST
by
Maudeen
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