As of May
13, 2014, the United
States has
a total population of 317.8
million,[1] making
it the third-most
populous country in
the world.[2]It
is very urbanized, with 82% residing in cities and suburbs as of 2011
(the worldwide urban rate is 52%).[3] California and Texas are
the most populous states,[4] as
the mean
center of U.S. population has
consistently shifted westward and southward.[5] New
York City is
themost
populous city in the United States.[6]
Nearly
102 million working-age Americans jobless
Although the US unemployment rate has declined,
more and more Americans are choosing to opt out of the labor market
altogether and no longer even figure in the employment data.
Efforts
by the Obama administration to dress up the employment picture are a
bit like attempting to stuff a circus elephant into a ballerina
costume. As Washington trumpets last month’s drop in the
unemployment rate (6.3 percent), it has quietly moved more than
988,000 Americans into the “not
participating in the labor force” column.
If
you add the current number of Americans without
a job (9.75 million) to the number of US citizens not in the
labor force (92.02), you come up with 101.77 million working age
Americans who do
not have work, according to data from the US Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS).
Now compare that figure to April 2000, when
5.48 million Americans were unemployed and 69.27 million Americans
were not participating in the labor market. The number of Americans
14 years ago without work was 74.75 million. That means that the
number of working age Americans without a job has risen by 27 million
since the year 2000. However Washington wishes to fudge data that is
bad news for the Obama administration.
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