700,000 Jobs being created, yet 2 million are graduating?

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You need to understand those numbers mean nothing. The bulk of those 700k jobs are what is called 'mcjobs'. The only sectors of the economy that are growing are those of the services and food industry which are all no-skill, minimum wage pay positions. The jobs that were lost between the Enron time and the the start of Obama's presidency are not coming back.

If the gov. started showing how many new small businesses were created that would give you a better feel for the economy.

Possibly. Even with government funded workers leaning on their shovels, some useful and necessary work might be done.

WPA, CCC and other useful stuff. The real question is will this lead to a re-invigoration of the economy or a permanent workfare-welfare state?

ruveyn

I frame the problem differently. It isn't that there aren't enough jobs. The invisible hand does a great job of regulating what goods are produced for what cost and creating an efficient system. The problem is that there are too many people. When there are more people than there is work, there's no incentive for anyone to find uses for those that are less adaptable to whatever the current job market demands. This goes for people with AS/autism, mental disorders, disabilities, or w/e. It's cheaper and easier to simply discard those that require any effort to deal with. Most people aren't consciously so callous and there are many well meaning people and organizations that actively try to do the right thing and find ways to work with the disabled. Still, many aren't, and they drive costs down and limit what the more well meaning folks can do. Eventually, competition drives even the best of us to use the same tactics to stay in business. As long as there's a surplus of humanity to do w/e the people in power want done, the situation will not change and there will always be unemployment.

Regulating the birth rate is the best and most direct method to change this social dynamic, but the chance of that happening in the foreseeable future is less than zero, at least in this country. The naive traditionalism of social conservatives and outright greed of the corporations that increasingly meddle in government will prevent anything that looks remotely like a policy of limited, sustainable, and responsible economic growth.

Not true. Unemployment is 9% for God's sake...it was less than 5% before the recession.

Your statement would be correct IF 9% was the natural rate of unemployment, but it's not.

Depends on what subject you studied in university I believe. I was studying telecommunications (mainly a film school) where an internship is crucial. I was never informed about the whole concepts of Internships but then it may have been because I covered most of my credits within the major by participating in a summer immersion project (assisting in the filming of a full length movie) that covered 12 credits worth of college courses.

But you're right about the social skill issue. I did do an internship but not a real one. It was the Walt Disney World College Program that I did after graduating college. That program was mostly centered around people connections which I couldn't for the life of me figure out how one could do this when the Internship was mainly a way for the resort to obtain cheap labor. I attended a few connection seminar but didn't have to take any of the courses since I had already graduated.

When I went to a medical coding and billing school I did do one school required externship but even that doesn't cover much in the experience department plus I didn't make a good impression. The reality is that you would have to volunteer your services to various areas of employment for free (provided you have the know-how) and for several years before you're considered hireable. But even finding a place to volunteer your services to is difficult and even has requisites!

Our system is extremely inefficient actually. The invisible hand is quite a dodgy concept. How does it work in a society where corporations routinely work toward monopoly and customer-hostile market practices? I think the deregulation during Bush's presidency made it abundantly clear that the "invisible hand" is nonsense.



This makes no sense. In a capitalist society, people are the producers and consumers. This means the more people you have, the more people need stuff and thus the more people needed to provide stuff.

If wages hadn't been relatively static over the past 20 years while cost of living increased dramatically, this too would have had the effect of stimulating - rather than stifling - the economy. For the economy to work, people need to have money to spend. Deprive them of money, and the economy falters.



Actually, it is neither costly nor does it require a lot of effort to accommodate people with disabilities. However, many - if not most - employers see providing accommodations as an adversarial matter - people with disabilities are waiting to sue them into compliance with the ADA or other relevant laws. However, this idea is a myth promoted largely by conservatives and libertarians (such as the Cato Institute) to justify excluding people with disabilities from the workforce even while they also want to exclude many of those same people with disabilities from benefits.

So, really, it's about economic disenfranchisement, whether this is a conscious decision or reactionary fear. The end result is that some of the most vulnerable people suffer greatly for no good reason.



The birth rate is not the problem right now. It is also generally demonstrated that as living conditions improve, birth rates drop. In other words, the best way to lower the birthrate is to stimulate the economy, work on eliminating poverty, improve education, and try to bring wages in line with cost of living.