• LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That’s probably the number that includes people that don’t work though… all the income numbers would shift down in that case

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        3 months ago

        That’s generally excluded and even if it’s not unemployment has been very low recently

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          3 months ago

          The problem with the unemployment statistic is that it doesn’t include most people we would consider unemployed. If a person hasn’t actively been job searching in the past four weeks, they are not counted. Therefore it does not count prisoners, full-time students, retirees, most of the homeless, etc.

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          3 months ago

          Yeah I’m seeing 40k but a bunch of other numbers as well, some above 50k. It really comes down to how you measure it but in any case the numbers in the meme don’t make sense.

          BTW though unemployment is not the same as number of people not working. It refers just to people actively looking for a job that aren’t employed.

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            3 months ago

            I think it’s just hyperbole. The median numbers are accurate enough even if meme was made 5 years ago

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              3 months ago

              But none of the numbers in the meme are medians… they’re all averages. If they were all medians they wouldn’t change at all.