[UPDATE] ACTUAL U.S. U6 TABLE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 2 JUN 2023 6.7%* [W/LTU 24.7]
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/U6RATE
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/never-ending-little-changed-unemployment-figures-january-2013
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/april-unemployment-rate-lowest-may-2007-6106
*Does NOT Include Long-Term Unemployment (Total 24.7% - See Below)
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN PROGRESSIVE/SOCIAL DEMOCRACIES
DENMARK 2.4%
NORWAY*** 3.0%
ICELAND*** 3.4%
NETHERLANDS 3.5%
GERMANY 5.6%
EUROPEAN UNION 6.0%
***ICELAND AND NORWAY NOT E.U. MEMBERS
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/unemployment-rate?continent=europe
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tipsun30/default/table?lang=en
NEW ZEALAND 3.4%
AUSTRALIA 3.6%
https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/unemployment-rate?continent=australia
https://www.stats.govt.nz/
https://www.abs.gov.au/
HOW IT'S DONE - WHAT THESE COUNTRIES HAVE IN COMMON
Higher Minimum-Wage/Prevailing Wage Than U S
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=RMW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_by_country
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Labor/Salaries-and-benefits/Minimum-wage
https://glabor.org/wp/platform/data/
https://wageindicator.org/salary/minimum-wage
Green Economic And Social Policies (Environmental Performance Index)
https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/
https://epi.yale.edu/epi-results/2022/component/epi
https://epi.envirocenter.yale.edu/results-overview
Socialized Higher Education (Free Post-Secondary Education)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_education#List_of_countries_with_free_post-secondary_education
High Trade/Labor Union Participation
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=CBC
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TUD
http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Labor/Trade-union-membership
High Government Transparency Ratings (Less Corruption)
https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022
Equitable Distribution Of Income
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equality
Universal Healthcare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_coverage_by_country
http://www.quora.com/What-countries-offer-universal-health-care-and-free-college-education
Longevity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
Universal Literacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_rate
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/references/guide-to-country-comparisons/
Lower Crime Rate
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
Lower Homicide Rate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Farthest Right U S State VS Furthest Left U S State
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=z1ebjpgk2654c1_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=unemployment_rate&fdim_y=seasonality:S&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:US&idim=state:ST4800000000000:ST5000000000000&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=c8op9mhgodplq_&ctype=l&met_y=median_income_current#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=median_income_current&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:US&idim=region:northeast:south:midwest:west&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false
https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=b1tlmra7lb7a9_#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=crime_rate&fdim_y=crime_type:violent&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=state:TX:VT&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US&ind=false
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_homicide_rate
SEE A PATTERN? FORWARD AND TO THE LEFT, PLEASE...
*JUST SO WE’RE CLEAR, I SPENT AN AFTERNOON WATCHING FAUX NEWS (SHUDDER) AND RECORDING ALL OF THE THINGS THAT REPUBLICANS SAY KILL JOBS, AND THEN DID THE RESEARCH TO SEE IF ANY OF THEIR CLAIMS HOLD UP IN THE REAL WORLD.
WHAT I FOUND WAS THAT THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE. IN FACT, THOSE COUNTRIES WHICH TOOK THESE POLICIES TO THE FURTHEST EXTREMES ALL SEEMED TO OUTPERFORM THE US WHEN IT COMES TO EMPLOYMENT.
SO I CREATED A SURVEY OF ONLY THOSE COUNTRIES, EXCLUDING ANY THAT DID NOT FIT ALL OF THE CRITERIA. FOR EXAMPLE, I EXCLUDED BELGIUM, BECAUSE, EVEN THOUGH THEY FIT MOST CRITERIA, THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD IS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN OURS, HOWEVER, IN CASE YOU WERE CURIOUS, THEIR UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WAS STILL LOWER.
I ALSO FOUND THAT THEY BEAT US WHEN IT CAME TO EVERY OTHER SOCIAL MEASURE I COULD THINK OF...?
Actually, North American unemployment stats are pretty misleading and don't report the real jobless rate and the poverty it creates.
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
For example, European countries measure their real unemployment far more honestly and comprehensively than the US [which is what I'm referring to. Bill Clinton had the long-term unemployed removed from the Dept Of Labor's stats in 1994]
For example, in France now the official jobless rate is 7.1%—that’s quite a bit higher than the US, which has an official rate of 3.4%.
However, France, like Italy and Germany, which all have a 35-hour regular work week, consider anyone working less than 11 hours a week to be unemployed, and adult full-time post-secondary students training in a recognized profession are considered part of the work force and therefore unemployed as well—in addition to employable welfare recipients.
http://tinyurl.com/2exnpzx
http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/.../feature/fr0103138f.html
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/topic/unemployment
https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/article/2001/unemployment-rate-falls
http://tinyurl.com/34yk4e4
The US does not include students and has no minimum hours provisions in its calculations. By these standards, if you worked, even an hour in a week during the federal survey, you’re considered employed. If you didn’t work and hadn’t looked for a job in four weeks, you’re not considered part of the work force. Non-disabled adult welfare recipients and the huge chronic poor populations, especially in urban areas, aren’t considered either. Canada is similar.
So if you apply US-style measures to France, the rate turns out to be 3.4%. Now, if you apply French measures to the US, the rate jumps to a whopping 24.7%—that’s largely because of the huge under-employed low-paid part-time work force in the US, and the huge number of employable welfare recipients and chronic poor.
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