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‘We have 93 million people out of work’
We have addressed claims like this one previously and have not rated them favorably.
Trump’s press office did not answer an inquiry, but we have a good idea where the number came from. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the federal government’s official collector of employment data, either 92 million or 93 million members of the civilian, non-institutionalized population who were age 16 and over were not in the labor force in July 2015. (There are slight differences in the figure if you use seasonally adjusted numbers as opposed to non-seasonally adjusted numbers.)
But what does this number actually mean?
For one, it includes lots of people who likely aren’t looking for work. It includes every American of retirement age -- 65 and older. It includes every high-school student at least 16 years of age. It includes every college and many graduate or professional-school students. It includes every person who has a disability that makes it impossible for them to work. It includes parents who are choosing to stay home to take care of their kids. It includes every adult who’s gone back to school full-time. It even includes trust-fund kids who are living off investments.
Put it all together and this is not a trivial group of people.
Out of the 93.8 million Americans age 16 and up who are deemed "not in the labor force," 9.7 million of them are between 16 and 19 years of age. Another 5.7 million are between 20 and 24. And 37.8 million are age 65 and over. (In fact, 17.5 million are over 75 years old.)
What’s left? This leaves 40.5 million Americans who are not in the labor force and are between the ages of 25 and 64. It’s possible to argue that this number should be a bit higher -- college typically ends at age 22, not everyone goes to college, and healthy seniors today can usually work past 65 if they wish. But right off the top, Trump’s claim significantly overstates the matter.
So what’s a better number?
The official number of unemployed Americans is 8.3 million -- less than one-tenth of what Trump says. But to give Trump the benefit of the doubt, it’s possible to expand this number using more credible economic thinking.
https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...ople-out-work/
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass… It's about learning to dance in the rain
йа не знаю че там у него сейчас (возможно, сдает какую-то недвижимость), но по молодости этот лузер в отличие от Тюбика (Блисса) даже не мог допустить мысли о том, чтобы женщина его обеспечивала. Он только и делал, что покорно и бездумно прогибался под волю любой бабенки, что попадалась на пути... фпрочем всё в соответствие с требованиями социальной Матрицы, поэтому это даже вызывало у него гордость![]()
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