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>On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>About 42% of the officially unemployed are drawing benefits.
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>So a majority of workers fall through the cracks in monetary terms?
Yup. In the early 70s, about 62% of the unemployed were drawing benefits; ever since the early 1980s, it's averaged in the low 40s.
Doug