http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:37:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40737 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40737#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:37:08 +0000 Krugmanic Depressive http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40737 creeping Grrr.]]> creeping Grrr.]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40737/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40736 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40736#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:36:48 +0000 Krugmanic Depressive http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40736 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40736/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40700 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40700#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:16:31 +0000 HiredGoons http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40700 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40700/feed 0 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40688 http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40688#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:41:16 +0000 NinetyNine http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40688 sort of territory ("I will take the bet provided that people in prison are counted as unemployed. By my estimate, that raises the US rate by about 1.5 percentage points and the the EU-15 rate by about 0.2 percentage points. That is, assuming current imprisonment rates remain unchanged, the bet is that the Eurostat measure of unemployment (which excludes prisoners) should be no more than 2.3 percentage points higher in the EU-15 than in the US.")]]> sort of territory ("I will take the bet provided that people in prison are counted as unemployed. By my estimate, that raises the US rate by about 1.5 percentage points and the the EU-15 rate by about 0.2 percentage points. That is, assuming current imprisonment rates remain unchanged, the bet is that the Eurostat measure of unemployment (which excludes prisoners) should be no more than 2.3 percentage points higher in the EU-15 than in the US.")]]> http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/black-unemployment-reaches-great-depression-proportions#comment-40688/feed 0