{"id":2067,"date":"2015-04-23T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2015-04-23T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:04:08","slug":"tell-me-something-i-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/tell-me-something-i-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me Something I Don&#8217;t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/tell-me-something-i-dont-know\/\" data-text=\"Tell Me Something I Don&#038;%238217;t Know\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>So I read this today. \u00a0According to Matt O&#8217;Brien at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post WonkBlog:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/04\/21\/economists-have-discovered-how-bad-the-economy-really-is\/\" target=\"_blank\">Economists Have Discovered How Bad The Economy Really Is<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;&#8230;even though the unemployment rate tells us the most about the labor market, it doesn&#8217;t tell us the full story.\u00a0All it does is show us\u00a0how many people who are actively looking for work\u00a0can&#8217;t find it. But that leaves out the &#8220;shadow unemployed&#8221; who want full-time jobs but have either given up looking for them\u00a0or can only find part-time ones.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>So we have a lot of &#8220;underemployment&#8221; instead of unemployment. \u00a0Not to mention those who are employed full time in jobs of last resort because their are no jobs available for them in their chosen field and they need something to pay the bills. \u00a0You know &#8211; the engineer who works at Home Depot or the middle manager who is selling phones at the AT&amp;T store, or the former factory worker who now a cosmotologist (at an 80% pay cut).<\/p>\n<p>Huh. \u00a0Who Knew? \u00a0Oh&#8230;that&#8217;s right. \u00a0Everyone who doesn&#8217;t work for a newspaper. \u00a0Well, at least one guy who works (blogs?) for a newspaper knows.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5NNOrp_83RU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Nothing to see here! \u00a0Move Along!<\/p>\n<p><em>Cross posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/cuanaenterprises.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cuana Enterprises Amazon Store<\/a> blog, the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cuanaenterprises.com\/blog.php\" target=\"_blank\">Men Out Of Work Blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet So I read this today. \u00a0According to Matt O&#8217;Brien at The Washington Post WonkBlog: Economists Have Discovered How Bad The Economy Really Is Excerpt: &#8220;&#8230;even though the unemployment rate tells us the most about the labor market, it doesn&#8217;t tell us the full story.\u00a0All&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2069,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}