I VOTE YES ON CALEXIT!

[Kinser79]

(03-10-2017, 08:30 PM)Odin Wrote:

(03-10-2017, 06:57 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:

(03-10-2017, 03:19 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: 70% is actually pretty good.  With retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students, that's fairly reasonable.  It's higher than the national rate has ever been (since WWII at least)

Dude..Students and retirees aren't counted in the workforce participation rate.  Neither are parents who stay at home by choice.  The Labor department counts those who are working, or looking for work and includes those who aren't drawing unemployment insurance.  What this means is that 3 out of every 10 Minnesotans who want a job don't have one.

Florida's current rate is somewhere in the 67% region which while higher than the national average is lower than it should be because tourism is the third largest industry.  People up north who don't have jobs don't go to the beach or Disney on vacation.

You are completely wrong.

Quote:The labor force participation rate is the ratio between the labor force and the overall size of their cohort (national population of the same age range).

Or as Guy pointed out I confused U3 unemployment with work force participation. Still if you have 3 in 10 able bodied adults under 65 not working....that is still recession levels.

Or am I wrong about Tourism being dependant on other people working else where and coming for vacation down here? Or am I wrong in that I'm talking to loads of people relocating from high tax states?