[lbo-talk] culture of poverty

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Wed Jun 30 10:43:53 PDT 2004


Doug:
> Working for a right-wing think tank means you can say whatever the
> hell you feel like. Here's the BLS's data for 2002. They report the
> employment/population ratio; the "nonemployed" (sometimes called
> "inactive") share is 100-EPR.
>
> EPR inactive
> Australia 60.6 39.4
> Canada 62.4 37.6
> France 52.0 48.0
> Germany 52.2 47.8
> Italy 44.1 55.9
> Japan 57.5 42.5
> Netherlands 64.0 36.0
> Sweden 60.7 39.3
> UK 59.6 40.4
> U.S. 62.7 37.3

They also make another claim - that the employment participation rates increase over time. What they should have said is "under Clinton administration, but plunged under Bush." Below are historical data on EPR from http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?jrunsessionid=1088617117 514200759

Year Qtr1 Qtr2 Qtr3 Qtr4 Annual 1994 62.2 62.4 62.5 63.0 1995 63.1 62.9 62.8 62.8 1996 62.8 63.1 63.3 63.5 1997 63.5 63.8 63.9 64.0 1998 64.0 64.1 64.0 64.2 1999 64.3 64.2 64.2 64.4 2000 64.6 64.5 64.2 64.3 2001 64.3 63.8 63.5 63.0 2002 62.8 62.8 62.8 62.5 2003 62.4 62.3 62.1 62.3 2004 62.2

Wojtek



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