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Sandra Fox, 69, of Baton Rouge, La., stood, confused, on 46th Street with a ticket for “Anything Goes” in her hand as riot police pushed a knot of about 200 shouting protesters toward her.
“I think it’s horrible what they’re doing,” she said of the protesters. “These people need to go get jobs.”
Sandra Fox, 69, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, probably doesn’t fully understand the situation that our country is in right now. Such ignorance is inexcusable.
With 9.1% unemployment as of September 2011 (according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics), the number of jobless Americans is at 14 million. Just in case you’re having trouble picturing it, this should help you out: take the populations of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and add them up. If you did the math with me, then you just discovered that the number of people unemployed in the United States is roughly equivalent to the populations of its three largest cities combined.
And that’s just the people who meet the strictest requirements of unemployment.
There is another segment of unemployed Americans not included in the 9.1% that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics calls “marginally attached to the workforce.” They define this segment as “individuals [who] were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months,” but had ceased their search over four weeks prior to the survey.
The number of unemployed, “marginally attached” Americans is 2.5 million For those of you keeping score, that’s 16.5 million people unemployed in the United States right now, at this second. We can go ahead and add the population of Houston (2.1 million) to that tally. The number of unemployed individuals in the United States exceeds the combined populations its four largest cities.
But wait, there’s more!
What about people who are currently working part-time, but desire full-time employment? The BLS calls these individuals “involuntary part-time workers,” so named because they are “working part-time, because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job.” This group consists of 9.3 million people, and was the only segment of the unemployed population that experienced growth in September 2011.
The number of people in the United States who are currently seeking full-time employment is 35.8 million. That is greater than the populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Austin, Columbus, Fort Worth, Charlotte, Detroit, El Paso, Memphis, Baltimore, Boston, Seattle, Washington D.C., Nashville, and Denver, put together.
In other words, add up the populations of the United States’ 26 largest cities, and you’re looking at the number of Americans without full-time jobs.
I don’t hold Sandra Fox accountable for what she said, because I believe (hope) that she did so not knowing the grim reality the United States’ unemployment situation. It would be nice if “these people” could “go get jobs,” as she haughtily suggested, but there are simply not 16.5 million jobs to be had (since I’m doing the whole population-comparison thing, that’s more people than the entire New York City metropolitan area).
I’d also like to point out that all of the data used in this blog came directly from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the 2010 Census. Absolutely none of it was altered or pulled out of context in any way. You can check for yourself, if you’d like. In fact, I strongly suggest taking a gander at Bureau of Labor Statistics Website for some more statistics on unemployment. The Sandra Fox quote came from this article.
