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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: RealMuLan who wrote (8556)	3/18/2004 10:35:53 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) of 81568

More stats than anyone probably reads. Euphemistically called the "marginally attached". I suppose that means they're hanging on by their fingernails to their standard of living. 8.2 million unemployed. That's a lot of people, equal to the entire population of Arizona and Connecticut combined. bls.gov In February, about 1.7 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, about the same as a year earlier. (Data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals wanted and were available to work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed, however, because they did not actively search for work in the 4 weeks preceding the sur- vey. There were 484,000 discouraged workers in February, also about the same as a year earlier. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, were not currently looking for work specifically because they believed no jobs were available for them. The other 1.2 million marginally attached had not searched for work for reasons such as school or family responsibilities. bls.gov

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