by Erik Kain on October 21, 2011
In response to my post on the hiring spree going on in North Dakota, commenter Barry took issue with the numbers: According to your chart, there are ~16,000 job openings in N. Dakota. The number of unemployed Americans, *just* counting those who lost their jobs in this crash, is on the order of (IIRC), 16,000,000. [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 20, 2011
Protesters at Occupy Wall Street may not have a coherent list of demands but they have one central, unifying theme: jobs. More precisely, the lack of jobs. From unemployed steel workers to recent college graduates, one message bubbles to the surface time and time again. The American dream is about finding a good job and [...]
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