Jeff H

Employment

The anecdotal unemployment rate

Statistics can be hard to get your head around. What does 7.6 percent look like? Two digits and a decimal point. I suspect the unemployment rate in the NYC metro area is significantly higher. I attend 12-step meetings, and the primary topic of conversation every day has become layoffs and how people spend their suddenly empty days without engaging in illicit behavior. Perhaps people in recovery are especially suceptible to the pink slip? I doubt it. I think the official unemployment rate somehow fails to pick up many of the people who have actually lost their jobs.

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