Just looking at the ratio confuses matters a little since the e-pop ratio tends to rise due to capitalism's normal increasing proletarianization of work and the workers. So here's a link to the US employment/population ratio, detrended so that fluctuations are more obvious. The trend only goes up to 2007 (from 1948) so that the recent e-pop fall doesn't affect the trend. Things look very bad. (The trend uses a time trend and a time-squared trend.)
http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/e-popDetrended.png On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Mike Ballard <[email protected]> wrote: > This is simply the rate of employed people to the population, so the ups and > downs of the labor market in expansions & recessions show up clearly. Here’s > a link to a (somewhat oversized) chart showing this rate since 1960: > > http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pMscxxELHEg/S5EVUZ5QDoI/AAAAAAAAHr0/njN3zRQfY5A/s1600-h/EmployPopFeb2010.jpg > > > FYI, > Mike B) > > *********************************************************************** > http://wobblytimes.blogspot.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine "Those who take the most from the table Teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined Demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss Call too ruling difficult For ordinary folk." – Bertolt Brecht. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
