• @LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

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

      • @MutilationWave@lemmy.world
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        218 days 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.

      • @LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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        118 days 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.

          • @LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world
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            318 days 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.