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Originally Posted by Matt-ADX
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you guys have to look a bit deeper at the numbers. the numbers that dropped where some lower middle educated and the very high educated (in this last mentioned group the drop is since years)
in the group with no high school diploma the number raised from 7,7 to 7,9 %
in the group with some college the number raised from 3,8 to 4%
in the group with a bachelors degree, the number dropped from 2,5 to 2,4%
in the group with high school diploma, the number dropped from 5,3 to 5,0
in this last group are usually a lot of people who work in the construction business.
as the winter in the north of US was warmer than last year the "construction season" season already started in february.
if you look additionally in the gender data you will see, that unemployment rate of man did not change at all. all the "new jobs" went to women (maybe because man are getting replaced with cheaper work from women because women earn in average 29% less than man do).
and if you want to read that now or not, the BIGGEST drops in unemployment rates are in hispanic and asians (because a lot of them got kicked out and canīt be unemployed anymore)
so a very funny maths.
so in fact the all in all paid wages did not change at all - i would even assume that the wages paid in total are lower than before.
HERE YOU CAN PLAY A BIT WITH THIS NUMBERS AND SEE THE REALITY