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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (61116)	5/7/2005 3:54:34 PM
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Brother, Can Ya’ Spare a Dime? PoliPundit.com Check this out: April 1997 “Discouraged workers” = 379,000 (0.28% of the total workforce). On the other hand, there’s this: April 2005 “Discouraged workers” = 393,000 (0.26% of the total workforce). Next stop: Hooverville. P.S. - In labor market parlance, “discouraged workers” essentially means people who recently gave up looking for employment because they felt no jobs were available for them. -- Jayson polipundit.com ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/History/empsit.050297.news bls.gov