John Maenpaa · @ritchiepage2001
28th Jan 2020 from TwitLonger
BUT MATH!!!
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[UPDATE] ACTUAL U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 6 DEC 2019 6.9%*
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/U6RATE
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/never-ending-little-changed-unemployment-figures-january-2013
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/april-unemployment-rate-lowest-may-2007-6106
*Does NOT Include Long-Term Unemployment
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN PROGRESSIVE/SOCIAL DEMOCRACIES 18 DEC 2019
GERMANY 3.1%
ICELAND*** 3.4%
NETHERLANDS 3.4%
NORWAY*** 3.8%
DENMARK 4.8%
BELGIUM 5.5%
FINLAND 6.7%
SWEDEN 7.1%
EUROPEAN UNION 6.3%
***ICELAND AND NORWAY NOT E.U. MEMBERS
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z8o7pt6rd5uqa6_&ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country_group:eu&idim=country:is:no:de:nl:dk:se:be:fi&ifdim=country_group&tstart=1073970000000&tend=1562990400000&ind=false#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:sa&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country_group&idim=country_group:eu:non-eu&idim=country:be:dk:fi:de:no:is:se&ifdim=country_group&tstart=1073970000000&tend=1562990400000&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false
CANADA 6 DEC 2019 5.9%
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/canada/unemployment-rate
AUSTRALIA 19 DEC 2019 5.2%
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/australia/unemployment-rate
HOW IT'S DONE - WHAT THESE COUNTRIES HAVE IN COMMON
Higher Minimum-Wage/Prevailing Wage Than U S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RMW
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Labor/Salaries-and-benefits/Minimum-wage
https://glabor.org/wp/platform/data/
https://wageindicator.org/salary/minimum-wage
Green Economic And Social Policies (Environmental Performance Index)
https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/
https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/epi-topline
https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/results-overview
https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/2018-epi-report/introduction
https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/epi-topline?country=&order=field_epi_rank_new&sort=asc
Socialized Higher Education (Free Post-Secondary Education)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_education#List_of_countries_with_free_post-secondary_education
High Trade/Labor Union Participation
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CBC
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TUD
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Labor/Trade-union-membership
High Government Transparency Ratings (Less Corruption)
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017
https://www.transparency.org/cpi2018
Equitable Distribution Of Income
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
Universal Healthcare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_coverage_by_country
http://www.quora.com/What-countries-offer-universal-health-care-and-free-college-education
Longevity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
Universal Literacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/fields/370.html
Lower Crime Rate
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
Lower Homicide Rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Farthest Right U S State VS Furthest Left U S State
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:S&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=state:ST4800000000000:ST5000000000000&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=c8op9mhgodplq_&ctype=l&met_y=median_income_current#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=median_income_current&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:US&idim=region:northeast:south&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=b1tlmra7lb7a9_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=crime_rate&fdim_y=crime_type:violent&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=state:TX:VT&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicide_rate
SEE A PATTERN? FORWARD AND TO THE LEFT, PLEASE...
*JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR, I SPENT AN AFTERNOON WATCHING FAUX NEWS (SHUDDER) AND RECORDING ALL OF THE THINGS THAT REPUBLICANS SAY KILL JOBS, AND THEN DID THE RESEARCH TO SEE IF ANY OF THEIR CLAIMS HOLD UP IN THE REAL WORLD.
WHAT I FOUND WAS THAT THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. IN FACT, THOSE COUNTRIES WHICH TOOK THESE POLICIES TO THE FURTHEST EXTREMES ALL SEEMED TO OUTPERFORM THE US WHEN IT COMES TO EMPLOYMENT.
SO I CREATED A SURVEY OF ONLY THOSE COUNTRIES, EXCLUDING ANY THAT DID NOT FIT ALL OF THE CRITERIA. FOR EXAMPLE, I EXCLUDED BELGIUM, GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS, BECAUSE, EVEN THOUGH THEY FIT MOST CRITERIA, THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD IS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN OURS, HOWEVER, IN CASE YOU WERE CURIOUS, THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS STILL LOWER.
I ALSO FOUND THAT THEY BEAT US WHEN IT CAME TO EVERY OTHER SOCIAL MEASURE I COULD THINK OF...?
Actually, North American unemployment stats are pretty misleading and don't report the real jobless rate and the poverty it creates.
For example, European countries measure their real unemployment far more honestly and comprehensively than the US [which is what she's referring to.
For example, in France now the official jobless rate is 8.5%—that’s quite a bit higher than the US, which has an official rate of 4.3%.
However, France, like Italy and Germany, which all have a 35-hour regular work week, consider anyone working less than 11 hours a week to be unemployed, and adult full-time post-secondary students training in a recognized profession are considered part of the work force and therefore unemployed as well—in addition to employable welfare recipients.
http://tinyurl.com/2exnpzx
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/.../feature/fr0103138f.html
http://tinyurl.com/34yk4e4
The US does not include students and has no minimum hours provisions in its calculations. By these standards, if you worked, even an hour in a week during the federal survey, you’re considered employed. If you didn’t work and hadn’t looked for a job in four weeks, you’re not considered part of the work force. Non-disabled adult welfare recipients and the huge chronic poor populations, especially in urban areas, aren’t considered either. Canada is similar.
So if you apply US-style measures to France, the rate turns out to be 3.5%. Now, if you apply French measures to the US, the rate jumps to a whopping 18.2%—that’s largely because of the huge under-employed low-paid part-time work force in the US, and the huge number of employable welfare recipients and chronic poor.