re: people who have stopped looking

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Tom Brosz — 3/27/2004 9:01:20 PM (archived)

The word "discouraged worker" never appeared in unemployment analyses until recently. The number of such workers amounts to about a third of a percent of the labor force.

Sorry about the drug plant, but that is what is necessary to compete in many cases, and it's happening everywhere. On the other hand, some companies are moving to small towns, also for cost reasons.

Do you feel that if Al Gore was president, the drug plant would not have moved overseas?

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What's happening with the economy, 4th qtr... - Tom Brosz - 3/26/2004 5:20:31 AM
- All true, but the job situation is still very bad. If it does not improve, Bush will lose the election. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 3/26/2004 10:12:07 PM
  - The unemployment rate is 5.6 percent - Tom Brosz - 3/27/2004 2:59:27 AM
    - I do NOT believe that number. Unemployment must be guaged as the percentage of persons of a certain age group in good health - David F Mayer - 3/28/2004 4:06:38 AM
      - Look, you can cook the numbers until you're blue in the face - Tom Brosz - 3/28/2004 7:44:01 AM
        
        I am not interested in "cooking numbers", but the fact remains that unemployment is quite high. - David F Mayer - 3/28/2004 9:07:18 PM
        
        the fact remains - Tom Brosz - 3/29/2004 3:56:14 AM
        
        Not at all. It gives an INVARIANT way of looking at the picture. - David F Mayer - 3/29/2004 5:35:03 PM
        
        Statistics - Tom Brosz - 3/30/2004 4:32:22 AM
    - Does that include the people who have stopped looking? - Mary Anne - 3/27/2004 1:42:26 PM
      - re: people who have stopped looking - Tom Brosz - 3/27/2004 9:01:20 PM
        
        I have no idea. - Mary Anne - 3/28/2004 5:25:14 PM
        
        Marie Antoinette's serving cake again... - Fox - 3/28/2004 4:52:08 AM

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