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That is not really all that high compared to 8 billion.
Last edited by Working Poor; 01-27-2013 at 07:19 AM.
It will be the highest in history, and not getting better , not very good news for the young .
Population will also be the highest in history. As a percent of the population, (I don't have figures at this moment) I doubt it would be the highest in history. It was worse during the Great Depression. (200 million out of 8 billion would be 2.5%).
Last edited by Zippyjuan; 01-27-2013 at 01:49 PM.
THIS THIS THIS.
The % of these people is OVERWHELMINGLY THE YOUTH. 16-25 year olds and into the late 20s.
How the hell is society supposed to work like a well oiled machine when an entire generation, those who are to drive progress for the next 30 years...CANT GET A JOB TO FEED THEMSELVES?!?!
Look at Greece and Spain...These are first world nations that have slipped into 2nd world status in just a few years...50% youth unemployement.
The problem is the same in the USA, England, Ireland...
This is a total rape of all FUTURE endeavors.
"Like an army falling, one by one by one" - Linkin Park
The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
I have been thinking about that alot lately, what kind of sick joke is it that the young always pay for the predations of the old. The most innocent are without exception the most affected. The young are not our prey, they are ourselves with less wrinkles.
It is my ace in the hole on gun debates: Are you willing to force conditions on the future, when you do not know what the future will bring? Best let the young grow with the right to defend themselves, and the unborne too. Stalin may have died, Mao may be dead, Hitler may be rotted, but they will be back... Thats a fact.
Once liberties are taken they are not peacefully given back. Take the Patriot act and the 4th for example.
Last edited by bolil; 01-27-2013 at 02:24 PM.
Best of luck in life.
The world's population is 7 billion, not 8 billion. The PDF link to the report doesn't seem to work for me, but 26.3% of the population is younger than 15 and 7.9% is older than 65, and if they don't count those, then the "working age" population is about 4.6 billion, or about 4.3% unemployed.
Actually , due to population , employment in the US is worse now than the Great Depression.Then there were about 5 people looking for every job available, we have been about 6 to 1 for some time.
Only people looking for work count as unemployed. If you're retired or underage, you're probably not looking for work. If those people were included, the US would account for most of that 200 million by itself. There are only about 141 million employed persons in the US.
By 2016 we could be looking @ around 23 Trillion in debt , not sure if anyone even knows how many trillions of unfunded liabilities on top of that. I think the first Country that backs a currency with any metal , puts everyone elses currency in the dirt.
I'd say your pretty spot on and Forecast.com agrees with you.
http://forecast-chart.com/chart-national-debt.html
The Creature from Jekyll Island:
We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!
No , if the govt's are smaller , take and spend less it makes the people more empowered.You have more control of your own destiny in a lifetime . Govt of excessive taxation , spending , debt , war, welfare .... that steals from your planning and abilities to take care of your own and others. Charity is good and should be voluntary.
A few numbers to compare. In 1933 (the worst year of the Great Depression in terms of unemployment), the total population was 95.95 million and the workforce was measured at 51.84 million (a 54 percent particiaption rate vs 63.6% today so workforce participation was lower http://ycharts.com/indicators/labor_...icipation_rate and the total considered unemployed was 12.83 million or 24.75% of the workforce.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1528.html
That converts to 13.4% of the total population unemployed.
Compare to today's total of 12.2 milllion total unemployed people today http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm (which is about the same total unemployed in 1933) out of a much bigger population of 311 million or 3.9% of the total population.
Consider also that in 1933 there was likely only one person in a family who would have worked. Them losing their job had a much bigger impact on the family than today where there are often multiple wage earners so one losing their job still hurts- but not as much. Then add in all the unemployment assistance available today vs none then and it is much easier to survive without a job than it was in 1933.
Things were much worse in 1933.
Many didn't even have phones- and if you did, you probably shared the line with others. Can't find numbers for 1933 but in 1920 only one third of homes had one. http://www.maineahead.com/back-then-3/
Party Lines
May 18, 1933, Ellsworth, Maine
This quartet of telephone operators seem to be calmly doing their jobs in 1933 Ellsworth. But close inspection reveals a scene that may have puzzled Alexander Graham Bell, had he still been alive. A makeshift “switchboard” consists of boards and sawhorses, and the old phones could have been lifted from Ike Godsey’s general store in TV’s Depression-era series The Waltons.
On the evening of May 7, one day before this photo was taken, the worst fire in the city’s history reduced downtown to ashes. After phone service west to Blue Hill was knocked out, quick-thinking executives set up an exchange in a Victorian home at Church and Oak streets. Operators kept Ellsworth linked to the outside world.
By 1933, telephones were a mainstay in Maine. Governments often claimed phone system ownership in other countries, but private enterprise prevailed in the U.S., giving way to evolving local and long-distance price structures that impacted Maine. By 1920, more than a third of all households nationwide had Bell telephones. Most had party lines with two to four households on the same circuit. Callers were urged to be brief and courteous—no eavesdropping.
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