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Originally Posted by 12clicks
no, actually the employment numbers are on page 38.
currently employed or retired=88%
out of work or "not looking for work" = 11% as compared to the general population of 28%
nowhere does the article talk about the ows movement. I guess we can *say* the ows people are employed but their actions show that they are not.  |
As I mentioned above College students & retired are not counted as "employed or unemployed" by govt stats.
Meaning you can't sit there and claim college student whom are full time are un-employed while counting the 35% of retired TPers as employed.
The simple fact is only 56% of TP members are active with-in the workforce and 49% stated they or a family member was using social security. 44% were on medicare.
So when you look at the eligible numbers of TP members whom are officially counted as employed or un-employed they have the same average rate that the country has as a whole of around 9%. Yet as a whole only 56% are out there working so in reality the term get a job hits closer to home with the TP.
As for OWS & and their data, I said it wasn't in that Poll.. That was a poll specific to TP members. OWS is a much newer movement and there simply isn't as much data on their member base.
yet with that said there seems to be a average of around 15-13% in the polls that have been taken on unemployment with-in the OWS movement "as a whole". That means It's about 85% "taken as a whole" whom are employed which is far higher than the 56% of the TP movement.
You can find results here for some of the various polls that come up with those numbers on OWS..
http://www.fastcompany.com/1789018/o...ics-statistics
It also claims that 26% are enrolled in school part time and 10% full time, so that would certainly lower the amount of "officially" un-employed as well. This makes both groups very similar in numbers of eligible members in the work force but OWS has a much higher percentage of people that "have a job".
Of course you will ignore any stats and have some reason it's don't pertain to your little world of 12clicks knows everything. However I think the average person that isn't delusional can see whats up.