[ale] Off topic - And now, Arizona

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 17:24:32 EDT 2010


On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
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> We have nearly 10% unemployment. That sounds
> scary. We have better than 90% employment. That's great!

90% of what?

Certainly not able bodied adults between 18 and 65.

I don't now the details but:

100% = Employed + Unemployed + other.

And other is close to 50% I do believe, maybe more.  ie. Students,
non-working spouses. those that have given up looking for work etc.

Greg


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