Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I know plenty about it, but even so it's still mostly voodoo so I for one don't claim any predictive value.
If I wasn't clear before, I don't think there are 100 million people in this country who would like to work but cannot. There could easily be 100 million who don't because they chose to do other things... independently wealthy/retired, student, stay home with kids, whatever.
If you're talking working age adults, 100M is a very large percentage of working age adults. Rough estimate there are at least 100M kids/students + retirees in this country. So you're saying almost 50% of working age adults can't find work??? You're full of BS.
Reading comprehension is hard.
You put words into his mouth (incorrectly ) then told him exactly the same thing he just said in different words as your "truth". At least every day you mis-construe and then argue some inane point with somebody on here. You must be a real joy to fly with. Other then that I do agree that 100 million sounds a bit high for working age adults. You are right it includes retirees and children.
Google is so hard for arm chair pilot know it all's.
. Literally the first result.
The truth. https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/10/news/economy/95-million-out-of-workforce/index.html.
From the article.
-- 94.6 million people above the age of 16 were out of the workforce.
Of those:
-- 44.5 million were retired.
-- 14.5 million were in school or job training.
-- 12.8 million were taking care of a loved one.
-- 15.3 million weren't working because of an illness or disability.
In all, of the 94.6 million not working, 87.1 million were retired, in school, taking care of a loved one or physically unable to work.
That leaves 7.5 million people. What about them?
Of those, 1.6 million had looked for a job in the past year or wanted a job but had given up searching for more than a year. And 5.9 million workers listed "other" as a reason for not wanting or having a job. We don't know much about these workers.