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Originally Posted by VinceZeb
Ok, MM and Max, you have said that you know a lot of skilled people that don't have jobs. What are their skills and what are the demands for their skills in our current enviroment?
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Why should they answer? Is it their job to do your research for you and educate you? They through out a claim, didn't necessarily support it, and there's no need to continue, right? Why should anybody ever substantiate any of the things they say, Vince? It seems to be quite a successful technique.
Anyway, as far as the Department of Labor goes, they do in fact have a fucked up method for collecting data. I haven't heard anything about the "self-employment" boom that Vinth had mentioned, but they do stop tracking people once they go unemployed for over a certain period (I believe six months). This means they don't count, and don't get added into the unemployed. Also, many people have decided to take different routes and return to school. I know from talking to a handful of graduate programs that the average age of the graduate/Phd applicant has increased into the mid to late twenties. To my recollection, these people don't get counted as unemployed, either. All of these flawed methods will be good for President "jobless recovery" Bush.