[lbo-talk] question re: NYC unemployment figures

Sean Sweeney ss266 at cornell.edu
Mon Oct 4 09:35:17 PDT 2004


Try the Community Service Society

http://www.cssny.org/index.html

regards Sean

At 12:17 PM 10/4/04 -0400, you wrote:
>A. Venesky wrote:
>
>>Can you direct me to any resources to figure out the
>>truth of NYC unemployment? Or has anyone done his or
>>her own analysis that may be helpful for me?
>>
>>I know that discouraged workers and the underemployed
>>are not considered in the official figures as well. If
>>anyone has good estimates on those numbers, i would be
>>very grateful for your help...
>
>I haven't looked at this data in years, but it used to be that NYC had a
>very low participation rate and a very low employment population ratio -
>i.e., large parts of the population aren't in the labor force because
>they've given up searching for work. I've got a query in with the BLS to
>see if I can get up to date numbers on this, but as I recall, if NYers
>were employed at national rates, we'd have 500,000 more jobs.
>
>Doug
>___________________________________
>http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list