The U3 numbers are a poor indication of the true employment situation,. but has been the consistent measurement for decades... The more accurate indication is the U6 number:
The True Unemployment Rate
The U-3 unemployment rate is a comparatively narrow technical measure that leaves out a whole swath of out-of-work people who are willing and able to take a job but who don't fit the narrow BLS definition of "unemployed." For example, a stonemason who wants to work but who has become discouraged by a lack of opportunity in the midst of a deep economic recession would not be included in U-3 unemployment. A marketing executive who is laid off at age 57 and stops scheduling new job interviews due to her experience of age discrimination would not be included in U-3 unemployment. A person who only works one six-hour shift per week because no full-time jobs are available in his area would not be included in U-3 unemployment.
In contrast to the U-3 rate, the U-6 unemployment rate includes all of these cases. Consequently, the U-6 rate is much truer to a natural, non-technical understanding of what it means to be unemployed. By capturing discouraged workers, underemployed workers and other folks who exist on the margins of the labor market, the U-6 rate provides a broad picture of the underutilization of labor in the country. In this sense, the U-6 rate is the true unemployment rate.
The Employment-population ratio [stlouisfed.org] is down significantly, but that doesn't necessarily indicate people who want work can't find it. Things like "retirement" and "wages that don't cover daycare" come in to play.
Really? Well let's just send the next quarter-million refugees that stream across our southern border and deliver them in to Canada - I wonder how that will play out?
That was our mistake: believing a minority of the American people wouldn't next elect someone
Too bad the vast majority of eligible/potential voters (over 100 million) chose not to even bother voting, instead they sat back and just watched it happen.
who believes you should take away someone's citizenship for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Doesn't matter what he believes, a person can not have their citizenship 'stripped' from them, SCOTUS made that ruling a few years ago.
Hillary believes you shouldn't be able to burn the American flag...
It's not like all 30 of those kids have parents doing that, or even a computer at home other than a tablet or smartphone.
Think about it - those thirty kids are all sitting in a classroom with computers for their "Hour of Coding" (TM) - access to a computer isn't the barrier.
Before the internet people programmed their home computers because it was the only way to do anything with them - with the internet any number of apps/games can be downloaded onto their phone, tablet, computer...
There's a strange belief here that learning to program ought be a painful rite of passage to weed out the undeserving.
No, it's that it should be something a child is actually drawn to, not an activity forced down their throat to perform in lock-step with thirty other classmates.
It used to just be a fun hobby the average kid could pick-up in a few days.
But not in a scripted hour in a group activity led by a teacher with no idea what they are doing...
You would have us believe the Zuck would compromise integrity and all values to gain access to the billion strong Chinese market?
Are you talking about the Mark Zuckerberg that came up with his 'Hot or Not' application to rank the women of his university (out of frustration when they wouldn't date him) and was sued by facebook co-founders, both real and imaginary (winklevos twins)?
I have a hard time holding "The Zuck" up as a pillar of values and integrity.
Why don't they try giving America a sane alternative?
They did, at the time - no one cared to report on it.
The CBO analyzed the GOP alternative to H.R. 3962 (PPACA, AKA "Obamacare") and concluded:
In contrast to H.R. 3962, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) finds that the Substitute would reduce average health insurance premiums ( by 7 to 10 percent in the small group market and 5 to 8 percent in the individual market) and would reduce the federal deficit by $68 billion over ten years.
You just want this to be a problem, but it really isn't. You wrote:
And this doesn't even get into the point that "final text" bills can be repeatedly fail to pass, then move back into "draft" stage. So, we can have all the drama amplified into years of not getting anything done.
What prevents this from happening now? What prevents proponents from constantly re-introducing failed bills? Nothing. How does this proposal make constantly re-introducing failed bills any easier/likelier than the current situation? Nothing.
What's wrong with a little pause before passing a bill? What's the rush? most bills that are voted on don't go into effect immediately, they either go into effect a certain number of days after passage, on a fixed date-certain in the future, etc. - very, very few bills are in effect immediately.
If Ubuntu were really competent they would have done the reverse which is to have Windows apps run on Linux which would have been an advantage for Ubuntu.
You understand Ubuntu GIVES AWAY their operating system, and by Microsoft including Ubuntu inside Windows desktop environments, it allows hundreds of millions of users try Ubuntu without having to wipe their disk, re-partition it, install a hypervisor (parallels, VM Ware, VirtualBox, etc.) - an obvious good thing for the Ubuntu ecosystem. It also, in the eyes of millions of users validates Linux as a usable operating system.
Running Windows applications under Linux has been done, it's called WINE, and it's kludgy and not very intuitive for casual computer users.
The Linux foundation charter should be amended to ban companies like MS who sell competing OSs.
So let's see, aside from Microsoft, that would also prevent Oracle (they sell Solaris, a Linux competitor), IBM (they sell AIX, a competitor to Linux), and many other large corporations from donating to the Linux Foundation - how exactly does preventing large donors from donating "help" the Linux Foundation?
Could they maybe see their way to helping out the WINE project?
Why would they do that? They now fully-support a standalone Ubuntu (Linux) installation under Windows as either an integrated part of Windows, or a fully-supported guest OS under their hypervisor, either running on current desktop or server installations or as a guest on their free Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Server offering.
Until that happens, I'm not really going to congratulate them.
So until Microsoft assists a competitor to take market share from them you won't support them - is there ANY other company you can think of that gives up market share to help a competitor?
I think there should be a requirement that all bills are read aloud in full before the legislative body that is to vote on them.
The Republicans tried to do this when PPACA was being discussed/passed - you may recall a few high-profile Democrats saying things like "we have to pass the bill, so you can see what's in it" (pelosi) and "what good is reading the bill if you don't have 2 lawyers with you to explain it to you?" (Conyers, admitting he never actually read the bill he was sponsoring in Congress). The republicans tried to force Dems to hear, from f they wouldn't deign to actually read, the bill they were trying to pass.
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No, he wanted pics of the lawyers, not the client...
The U3 numbers are a poor indication of the true employment situation,. but has been the consistent measurement for decades... The more accurate indication is the U6 number:
Source: The True Unemployment Rate: U6 Vs. U3
Don't you understand that the workforce participation ratio only includes so-called "working-age" Americans and excludes retirement age Americans?
Let's consider just one statistic - workforce participation as a percentage of the population. Around the year 2000 it was about 67%, it has been fairly steadily declining since 2008 from about 67% to 63%...
In other words, 4% less of the working age population is employed.
I'll just mention in passing things like the majority of newly-created jobs being part-time, wages being stagnant for the last 8 years, and a national debt that has increased from an "unpatriotic" $11 Trillion under President Bush to nearly $20 Trillion after 8 years of President Obama...
That is what passes for "generally positive economic growth"?
Which is exactly what Hillary's position was/is back in 2005
http://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/...
Really? Well let's just send the next quarter-million refugees that stream across our southern border and deliver them in to Canada - I wonder how that will play out?
Oh yeah? Try calling him 'Big Ears'...
Too bad the vast majority of eligible/potential voters (over 100 million) chose not to even bother voting, instead they sat back and just watched it happen.
Doesn't matter what he believes, a person can not have their citizenship 'stripped' from them, SCOTUS made that ruling a few years ago.
Hillary believes you shouldn't be able to burn the American flag...
Yeah, they could have meant any one of several new administrations in the US...
Besides, the US 'gave up control' of the internet...
Are they really afraid the in-coming Trump administration is going to raid the server farms hosting this obscure internet resource?
Think about it - those thirty kids are all sitting in a classroom with computers for their "Hour of Coding" (TM) - access to a computer isn't the barrier.
Before the internet people programmed their home computers because it was the only way to do anything with them - with the internet any number of apps/games can be downloaded onto their phone, tablet, computer...
No, it's that it should be something a child is actually drawn to, not an activity forced down their throat to perform in lock-step with thirty other classmates.
But not in a scripted hour in a group activity led by a teacher with no idea what they are doing...
10 cls
20 print All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
30 goto 20
Quick, spot the syntax error...
Should be:
10 cls
20 print "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
30 goto 20
Wasn't it always? Or did people really think that following a script actually imparted some insight into the world of programming?
Are you talking about the Mark Zuckerberg that came up with his 'Hot or Not' application to rank the women of his university (out of frustration when they wouldn't date him) and was sued by facebook co-founders, both real and imaginary (winklevos twins)?
I have a hard time holding "The Zuck" up as a pillar of values and integrity.
Yeah, worked great for the #BringBackOurGirls.
"Awareness," the participation trophy of activism.
They did, at the time - no one cared to report on it.
The CBO analyzed the GOP alternative to H.R. 3962 (PPACA, AKA "Obamacare") and concluded:
You just want this to be a problem, but it really isn't. You wrote:
What prevents this from happening now? What prevents proponents from constantly re-introducing failed bills? Nothing. How does this proposal make constantly re-introducing failed bills any easier/likelier than the current situation? Nothing.
What's wrong with a little pause before passing a bill? What's the rush? most bills that are voted on don't go into effect immediately, they either go into effect a certain number of days after passage, on a fixed date-certain in the future, etc. - very, very few bills are in effect immediately.
You understand Ubuntu GIVES AWAY their operating system, and by Microsoft including Ubuntu inside Windows desktop environments, it allows hundreds of millions of users try Ubuntu without having to wipe their disk, re-partition it, install a hypervisor (parallels, VM Ware, VirtualBox, etc.) - an obvious good thing for the Ubuntu ecosystem. It also, in the eyes of millions of users validates Linux as a usable operating system.
Running Windows applications under Linux has been done, it's called WINE, and it's kludgy and not very intuitive for casual computer users.
So let's see, aside from Microsoft, that would also prevent Oracle (they sell Solaris, a Linux competitor), IBM (they sell AIX, a competitor to Linux), and many other large corporations from donating to the Linux Foundation - how exactly does preventing large donors from donating "help" the Linux Foundation?
Why would they do that? They now fully-support a standalone Ubuntu (Linux) installation under Windows as either an integrated part of Windows, or a fully-supported guest OS under their hypervisor, either running on current desktop or server installations or as a guest on their free Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Server offering.
So until Microsoft assists a competitor to take market share from them you won't support them - is there ANY other company you can think of that gives up market share to help a competitor?
Hillary Clinton managed to do just that...
So PPACA, so-called ObamaCare, at 2,500 pages would have what, a nearly 7 year review before passage?
The Republicans tried to do this when PPACA was being discussed/passed - you may recall a few high-profile Democrats saying things like "we have to pass the bill, so you can see what's in it" (pelosi) and "what good is reading the bill if you don't have 2 lawyers with you to explain it to you?" (Conyers, admitting he never actually read the bill he was sponsoring in Congress). The republicans tried to force Dems to hear, from f they wouldn't deign to actually read, the bill they were trying to pass.
The 72 hours requirement kicks in once you have 'final text', not each draft.
Sorry, that last line should read 'amendment' not 'bill' useless.