39% of unemployed have given up job search, poll suggests

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39% of unemployed have given up job search, poll suggests
Topic Started: May 24 2014, 12:38 PM (104 Views)
Darcie	May 24 2014, 12:38 PM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: Almost four out of 10 Canadians who don't have a job have completely given up hope of ever finding one, a new survey suggests. In a poll carried out by Harris Poll and published Friday by employment agency Express Employment Professionals, the company surveyed 1,502 unemployed Canadians. None of them had a job, and not all of them were receiving EI benefits. The results were eye-opening. 'That headline jobless rate doesn't necessarily capture how weak the jobless picture really is.'- Doug Porter, Bank of Montreal economist Some 39 per cent of those polled were in agreement with the statement that "I've completely given up on looking for a job" with five per cent saying they "agree a lot" 11 per cent saying they "agree somewhat" and 17 per cent saying they "agree a little." http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/39-of-unemployed-have-given-up-job-search-poll-suggests-1.2652239?cmp=rss Thanks to the CBC the truth about the economic situation of Canada does come out. No wonder the CPC et al don't like them and are trying to get rid of them.



Trotsky	May 25 2014, 12:12 AM Post #2
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	In the States every person who gives up looking for a job (or is PRESUMED to have done so) is officially tallied as NOT UNEMPLOYED and he lowers the Unemployment Percentage Figure posted monthly by the labor department. So the worse the job situation in the country GETS, the better this numbers looks. Hard to believe isn't it, but completely true. Thus the Unemployment Rate has fallen consistently as more and more jobs disappear each year since the Great Recession began. Edited by Trotsky, May 25 2014, 12:15 AM.



Dana	May 25 2014, 04:10 AM Post #3
WWS Hummingbird Guru & Wildlife photographer extrordinaire Posts: 13,054 Group: Member Member #830 Joined: March 23, 2011	Seems to be the same in both countries with the employment stats. No way to get a true reading and in Canada our statistics gathering has been reduced as well. Why wouldn't a person give up looking for employment if even the mcjobs are going to temporary foreign workers as is taking place in Canada. I have a sense that this is all part of global trade agreements somehow, made by the wealthy ruling class to govern the masses. An article that caught my eye. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/23/monetary-policy-as-class-warfare-revisited/ Quote: This isn�t rocket science� use bank debt as a weapon to create a large, desperate indentured class through housing / auto loan / student debt boom-busts, crash the economy and buy real assets back for pennies on the dollar. People who used to �own� their houses and work for a living now pay rent to the financial plutocracy while working McJobs to eternally repay ill-incurred debts. Should this read as hyperbole; household debt has barely fallen since 2006 while ordinary households have lost $6 trillion in household wealth. And living wage jobs lost in the Great Recession have been replaced overwhelmingly with minimum wage McJobs in the so-called �recovery.�



margaret	May 25 2014, 04:43 AM Post #4
Red Star Member Posts: 2,276 Group: Member Member #1,032 Joined: October 3, 2013	If we go back to Roman history we find they seemed to have started out with a type of democracy but as they got richer they ordinary roman lost a lot of clout.



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