Sunday, April 4, 2010

Unofficial Underemployment Rate Rises To 20.3%


WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup Daily tracking finds that 20.3% of the U.S. workforce was underemployed in March -- a slight uptick from the relatively flat January and February numbers.
Underemployment in U.S. Workforce, December 2009-March 2010 Monthly Trend
"The underemployed in March became neither more nor less hopeful about finding work soon."
These results are based on March interviews with more than 20,000 adults in the U.S. workforce, aged 18 and older. Gallup classifies respondents as underemployed if they are unemployed or working part-time but wanting full-time work. Gallup employment data are not seasonally adjusted.
A rise in the percentage of part-timers wanting to work full time (from 9.2% to 9.9%) is responsible for the March increase in underemployment. Unemployment saw a slight, but insignificant, decline in March.
Underemployment Components, December 2009-March 2010 Monthly Trend

28 comments:

  1. More proof the MSN media lies.
    I don't watch TV or listen to any local media, as I find the information is mostly lies, or irrelevant.

    Read any of the economist on the internet, they have all concluded the unemployment rate is above 20% and has been for several years, and its going UP, NOT down.

    and the sheeple say "Baaah".

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  2. I think ShadowStats, which incorporates the unemployed a year and havent looked in a couple of weeks that they dropped back in 1994 off the U6 number, says it is 21.7%...

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  3. I have been unemployed for 10 months, sent over 500 resumes and no luck. Will be homeless in another few months.

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  4. that number is bogus too, the unemployment rates is actually at 27% and on the rise, In las vegas, everyone I know is not working or on their way to being laid off, they are all scarred and it is coming!

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  5. For all we know it could be 30-40% unemployment. we will never know until blocks of people are going through your garbage..

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  6. I agree--11:16 is correct. The media gives us BS happy times yet we all can feel--yes you can smell it, taste it, palpate it--the depression we are in. Homeless in 60 days. Over 1k resumes sent out. Few answers, most never respond. I don't listen to the media anymore because none of them question anything. they spin for their corporate masters. worthless reportage of BS numbers.

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  7. Unemployed since January, the first time in 30 years. My 98k/year job went poof. Now I'm 55 years old over qualified engineer and no longer "economically viable." Over 500 resumes sent out, working with head hunters, nothing, nada, zilch.

    Thanks Obama, really digging that hope and change. You cleaned up after Bush just like your masters asked you to. Go back to Kenya you poser.

    $8/hr flipping hamburgers with a pimply faced boss is next.

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  8. I talked to a new business owner that just opened up a pizza joint in my local neighborhood. I asked him how many full time jobs his business will create? He said "one". How many part time jobs will he offer? He said "three". Next I asked so when you advertised, how many people sent resumes and applied for these jobs? He said "about 160".

    Just think about that folks: 160, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PEOPLE applied for a job at a pizza joint making pizza, taking orders through the phone, delivering pizzas, cleaning up the place, etc....

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  9. 1:18--I hear you. My $120k job was "eliminated". I'm 58. I'd flip burgers if someone offered me that job. I can't even get hired at Taco Bell.

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  10. 1:18 Obama inherited this shit. He didn't cause it and there really isn't too much he can do about it. Granted his remedies are Keynesian and he's too buddy buddy with Bushie leftovers from GS. But cut the man some slack. He at least is trying but it's like pushing on a string. Bush did NOTHING. And quit thinking in Repub/Demo terms as they are all part of the same coin and a worthless diversion that ultimately yields no change for middle or poor America

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  11. B.O. is just a puppet carrying forth the same Oligarch agenda. He is a nobody. Watch The Obama Deception video and stop thinking that policy has anything to do with what puppet happens to be in place at any given time.

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  12. From what I have observed, truly 1 out of every 5 people I know are unemployed, but want to work.

    If that is the definition of 20% unemployment, I believe it is correct.

    I don't care at all what the corporate media says unemployment supposed is; they lie; my eyes do not.

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  13. Only the fake media and a totally corrupt Emperial government could come up with a childish phrase like JOBLESS RECOVERY. That ranks right up there with their greatest hits like Fighting for our Freedoms, Troops (they are little campers here to help you), Evil Doers, Homeland Security (Nazi playbook), Green Shoots, and Democracy.

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  14. Years ago (1995) there where these people publishing documents on the internet saying that
    there was a globalist elite running this country that ultimately had the intention of ruining this country and sending it into social and economic calamity in order to further a new world order agenda of imposition of control over everyone.

    At that time I understood it was true because I know how sick and depraved the majority of human beings are.

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  15. We never were free. The British were not beat, they just changed their tune to Liberty. Then came the three step process to hell.

    First they used slavery; then they decided that required excessive management, room & board and loyal overseers.

    Second phase they decided to make the slaves free. Let them earn a living; feed themselves and pay rent. Of course they rented from the company and bought goods in the company store

    Third phase was home ownership. Now the company through the bank owned your home and your ass.

    We are entering the recycle phase. The company will collect your home, savings, children's future, etc. Next comes the concentration camps and ovens.

    Then its back to step one to rebuild and start all over again.

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  16. 3:04 yes it is absolutely true. You can't have a NWO, Bank of the World, central world government without the collapse of the USA. It cannot happen without our implosion. Six years after you read that was their greatest step forward toward that goal. The staged 9/11 events. From that day forward it was game over. The US changed into an open Nazi state. Torturing, murdering. All in a day's work.

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  17. 4:34 is absolutely correct. They were never beat. They parasites remained with their courts, religion, banking, government structure.

    Liberty and Freedom are not the same thing. Liberty is freedom temporarily granted, with restrictions.

    Like a seaman taking Liberty ashore. He has permission to be 'free' for a given time, under conditions. Know the difference.

    The Oligarchs grant us certain Liberties at times, but Americans are not, nor have they even been, free.

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  18. 3:04 please be aware that they have technology (HAARP) to start massive earthquakes where ever on the planet they want. Los Angeles, Iran, you name it. 99% of the sheeple are unaware of this. Nicola Tesla discovered this technology decades ago and it was gobbled up by JP Morgan and his Federal Reserve scumbags.

    Using the Earth's ionosphere as a focused reflector, they can concentrate great reactive energies anywhere they want.

    HAARP is located in Alaska and is supposedly a 'weather experiment' lol. The US Air Force deals with weaponry, not cloud cover.

    The poor people of Haiti were a testing ground. I know that sounds absurb to the 99%, but nonetheless it is true. There is solid scientific data to back up that claim as the earthquakes were happening.

    We live in interesting times.

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  19. I talk to a lot of guys I work with. None of us know what we would do if we were laid off. Where are the JOBS??? We plan and prepare as if there is NO tomorrow.

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  20. Where are the JOBS??? Mexico? Maybe 30 million or so down there.

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  21. Still have a good job, just bought a 21' bowrider and plan on spending some time at the lakes this year. We pull in about 100k/year, why worry about what might happen? If things get bad then we just sell the boat and SUV if we have to, no biggy. Why all the gloom and doom? There are many jobs out there but nobody wants to move or take something like working on a farm or factory, they all want to be a paper pusher

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  22. 7:06 you're not that stunned are you? When fiat dollar is worthless, which it will be SOON, your 100 grand will be worth dust..There are people like you that just don't get it. You can make a million dollars and it will be worthless soon.

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  23. The rich create the poor and the poor create the rich.
    They are the two faces of the same coin.
    One cannot exist without the other
    That is capitalism
    A slave must have a master.That is slavery
    There is a rich First World and a poor Third World
    Are they the two sides of the same coin or economy ?
    Does the one create the other?
    It is clear that hard work does have something to do with it.
    But whose hard work?
    But how come all the hard workers do not finish up being billionaires like Gates?
    And what has that to do with monopolies. The inevitable result of free trade competition. The one creates the other.
    In ancient Rome the rich aristocrats in the senate claimed to supply the brains and the plebians the brawn for labor and for the military .The senators claimed it was their hard work that fed the poor and provided the jobs.
    Philanthropy by the rich to fix the problems of the poor?
    Yeh Right on ! Only way to go!
    Populating control and eugenics via vaccines created by his tax exempt “charitable” Foundation says Gates .
    And exporting the US system democracy and free trade to solve the corruption in the world cries Soros all they need is to be more like America and corruption and unemployment will disappear .
    Nirvana for the world!
    Lets kiss the rich butt and vote on it .an end to these lefty actors like obama .Lets have the real thing.
    Elect Gates or Soros for president .So the rich are free to do continue to do their thing for us.

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  24. Google WWOOF. We're a network of organic farmers - mostly traditional permaculture setup. We need people who can help us automate our farms as much as possible. You get free food and free stay.

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  25. Have no fear, He is Risen. Nothing Obama, Soros, Gates or any little mortal man can do to you. They are figments of their own grandeur.

    Judgment comes to all.

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  26. Please go away and take your Santa Clause with you.

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  27. 5:47, you are immature and a bigot.

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  28. Government wants us totally dependent on them and yes it really don't matter what puppets are in office. When half are on welfare and food stamps and other half in military then our gov.
    will be happy.
    Meanwhile the military pay grade
    was just increased by 3.4%. Can u say aggenda anyone? as for the MSM they are just more puppets. For decades we have been brainwashed to
    buy buy buy and borrow borrow borrow.
    Meanwhile most of the public called the conspiracy theorist paronoid. Well when we are eating out of the trash and praying for the good old days when we could have really had a chance of making a difference.
    We need to make the Military industrial complex responsable for their actions and to stop their agenda. To enforce the constitution
    so that all men are truely created equal because right now we are not! right now we are being conned by a bunch of grifters with no,humanity, empathy or any conscience.

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