Nästan 20% arbetslösa i Förenta Staterna

Nedan ett utdrag ur en artikel som ger viktiga upplysningar om massornas verkliga läge i Förenta Staterna. Det man ska hålla i åtanke när man läser texten är att artikelförfattaren i sina beräkningar överhuvudtaget inte tar med i beräkningen den situation som miljoner och åter miljoner "papperslösa" invandrare lever under.

"In all, if you add up the 14.6 million people officially counted as unemployed, the 5.9 million who have given up trying to find a job, and the 8.5 million who are working part-time involuntarily, that gives us 30 million people who are desperate.

Remember, there are 310 million Americans, but many of them are under 18 or are in college or the military, are too disabled to work, or are over 65 and are no longer in the labor force. So that means that actually there are only 153 million in the labor force, so the real unemployment rate is is 19.6 percent, or approximately one in five working-age Americans.

No wonder that Gallup also found that 30 percent of Americans say that they are worried about becoming unemployed themselves. Remember, those worried people are folks who are still working, so they’re on top of the 20 percent who don’t have to worry about losing jobs because they are already out of work.

In other words, 50 percent of us are either out of work or worried about becoming jobless."