The Off Topic Topic

[derspiess]

[Admiral Yi]

Unemployment down to 4.4%. 94 continuous months of expansion.

Couldn't be arsed to find the we're all going to starve because of robots thread.

[Jacob]

Thanks Obama!

[Eddie Teach]

How are participation rates doing?

[Valmy]

Unemployment down to 4.4%. 94 continuous months of expansion.

Couldn't be arsed to find the we're all going to starve because of robots thread.

'Murica!

[Admiral Yi]

How are participation rates doing?

Wasn't mentioned in the NPR segment.

They did mention wage growth depends on geography and sector.

[CountDeMoney]

They did mention wage growth depends on geography and sector.

Unfortunately the sparsely populated regions of low wage, low education wrench turners have more electoral clout and political power than the more populous, affluent, educated and highly skilled city populations.  Hat's off to you, Iowan.  You won America. 

[Ed Anger]

Seedy, found another Twitter account for you:

https://mobile.twitter.com/badanimetweets?lang=en

[CountDeMoney]

I just came in my pencil case.  Squee.

[dps]

Electricity is a mistery? 

Not really, but apparently spelling is.

[crazy canuck]

How are participation rates doing?

Declining in both Canada and the US especially for younger people looking for work - which is the main reason the unemployment rate in both countries is decreasing.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Blergh.  I can't get used to these glasses I got after going to the eye doctor yesterday, even after going with thinner framed versions to avoid the weird "frame around everything" feel. 

Need to just laser these things back to how they're supposed to be.  Alternatively, maybe squinting all the time when looking at stuff more than 10 feet away will become cool.

[DGuller]

How are participation rates doing?

Declining in both Canada and the US especially for younger people looking for work - which is the main reason the unemployment rate in both countries is decreasing.

I think that's way too strong of a statement, maybe even to the point of being completely factually false.  It's a perennial argument, usually by the political opposition supporters or habitual pessimists, that unemployment numbers are artificially low because a lot of unemployed are not counted as unemployed.  It's always a bullshit argument, at least in US.

[Josquius]

Are zero hours contracts a thing in America?

Probably fair to say the decline is not all down to number fudging but to say it is nothing to do with that is even more wrong.

[CountDeMoney]

I think that's way too strong of a statement, maybe even to the point of being completely factually false.  It's a perennial argument, usually by the political opposition supporters or habitual pessimists, that unemployment numbers are artificially low because a lot of unemployed are not counted as unemployed.  It's always a bullshit argument, at least in US.

It's a sampling.  So yeah, there are a lot of unemployed people that are not counted as unemployed.