Unemployment
Actual U.S. unemployment is at around 17% if you count people who have run out of unemployment and those who are way underemployed: Doing marginal part-time work that can't pay all their bills. That's approaching 1 out of every 5 people. More men are unemployed than women.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has one of the highest premature birth rates. Higher than Cuba.
I've been listening to people on Minnesota Public Radio yak about this and, frankly, most of them aren't very smart. I didn't support MPR financially this year, and a big part of why is because I feel like the quality of programming has dropped big-time. Their "experts" go on and on and yet say very little. The unemployment "experts" didn't really see why unemployed teenagers are a big deal. Hello? How are they supposed to save for college? How could any reasonably intelligent human being just assume that kids with jobs just work to buy music off itunes or something? And the guy talking about premature births? He did finally get around to talking about maternity leave in more civilized countries, but come on, you don't think STRESS in the U.S. has anything to do with premature births?
Right now MPR is talking about unemployed construction workers. Why is it that nobody says that we can't keep building new houses forever? Sigh.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has one of the highest premature birth rates. Higher than Cuba.
I've been listening to people on Minnesota Public Radio yak about this and, frankly, most of them aren't very smart. I didn't support MPR financially this year, and a big part of why is because I feel like the quality of programming has dropped big-time. Their "experts" go on and on and yet say very little. The unemployment "experts" didn't really see why unemployed teenagers are a big deal. Hello? How are they supposed to save for college? How could any reasonably intelligent human being just assume that kids with jobs just work to buy music off itunes or something? And the guy talking about premature births? He did finally get around to talking about maternity leave in more civilized countries, but come on, you don't think STRESS in the U.S. has anything to do with premature births?
Right now MPR is talking about unemployed construction workers. Why is it that nobody says that we can't keep building new houses forever? Sigh.