You can't understand the very real economic despair of much of US with unemployment numbers just like you can't measure racism with polls.
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is there some index of job quality?
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We have some data & ways of getting at this for sure. On phone now but.. People have understood and warned about this for years.
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I think it is quite concerning that in the US, the prime age labour participation has fallen. If you adjust for that you get this:pic.twitter.com/YJwVhUlxVP
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I have never understood obsession with U-3, given that there are much better measures of well-being and economic inclusion.
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Important, but when we try to engage the WWC on policies to help, they respond to any racist dog whistle in opposition.
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@ddiamond more importantly, national statistics aren't useful for explaining a regiinal revoltThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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besides that, there has been no real improvement in unemployment rates for people without college education (1/3 of the workforce)
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see here for crucial evidence of that: https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/americas-divided-recovery/ …
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