https://twitter.com/NewsroomNZ/status/1414316726616051714?s=19

https://nitter.snopyta.org/NewsroomNZ/status/1414316726616051714?s=19

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    5% unemployment! Jesus Christ. Imagine thinking that's something you should aim for.

    And that's the U3. People actively searching. We're not even talking about the U6 figure of working age hireables.

    Concervatives scream and cry at young people for going to college, but they refuse to acknowledge a full time student as a potential new hire.

    • ImSoOCD [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      They also want us to pay for college out of pocket and to not take out “irresponsible” loans, but to not avoid college altogether if we don’t wanna be poor. It’s a no win situation. You get criticized no matter what. And if you make enough money to get by you’re not allowed to complain on behalf of the people who don’t

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Fun fact: Most bourgeois economists defines "full employment" as an unemployment rate somewhere around five percent.