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Krugman: 'The Wrong Worries'
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Krugman: 'The Wrong Worries'
Consider one crucial measure, the ratio of employment to population. In June 2007, around 63 percent of adults were employed. In June 2009, the official end of the recession, that number was down to 59.4. As of June 2011, two years into the alleged recovery, the number was: 58.2.
These may sound like dry statistics, but they reflect a truly terrible reality. Not only are vast numbers of Americans unemployed or underemployed, for the first time since the Great Depression many American workers are facing the prospect of very-long-term — maybe permanent — unemployment. Among other things, the rise in long-term unemployment will reduce future government revenues, so we’re not even acting sensibly in purely fiscal terms. But, more important, it’s a human catastrophe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/opinion/the-wrong-worries.html?_r=3&ref=opinion
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Spot on. Will they ever listen????
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Bullseye! ... Washington is asleep at the wheel ... why are there no riots yet? ...
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