Sunday, November 8, 2009
Who are the unemployed?
This post contains an interactive link. Define your "group" and view the unemployment rate. (Try black, men, 15 to 24, no HS degree VS black, men, 45+, college ed) What trends do you see in the data for your own "group?"
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Well, I'd say my group (White -> Male -> 15-24 -> No High School Education) has an understandably high unemployment rate of around 26% because we are young, have no education, and have no job or life skills in order to make ourselves useful. I find it startling though that when you leave every other preset the same except for changing "ethnicity" to "black," you see the unemployment rate sky rocket to just over 48%! I believe this to be the result of a mixing of bad living environment and racial profiling for employment. Blacks seem to have the highest unemployment rate in America, and hopefully their unemployment rate as well as everybody's will come down in the near future.
ReplyDeleteMy group is White women, ages 15-24, not a high school graduate, and the unemployment is 20.1%
ReplyDeleteFrom Jan 2007 through Sept 2009, the unemployment rate for my group has gone up maybe 10 percent. The rate had minor peaks and troughs until in the midst of 2008, when it started going fairly steadily up.
At the end of the curve, it's tipped downwards. This could mean that unemployment rates for my group are going to drop, like they should at the end of a recession. I guess we'll see.
My group would be white, male, ages 15-24, and not a high school graduate. I think it is really interesting that the younger you are the higher the unemployment rate. The unemployment for my classification group is 25.6%. On the other hand, if you were a black male, ages 15-24, and not a high school graduate, the unemployment rate is 48.5%. It is almost double the white males. The older classification groups have lower unemployment rates because they are more educated and have had jobs before. People in the age group of 15-24, are resources that have had less experience. After you graduate from college then you are a resource that is worth more, and worth hiring. Now that we are recovering from a recession, I hope that the unemployment rate will fall dramatically for everyone.
ReplyDeleteMy group would be white, male, ages 15-24, and not a high school graduate. Obviously this group is going to have a high unemployment rate, when your young and have no education your skills are not valued in most occupations. If these people want a job, they need to get educated and develop valuable skills.
ReplyDeleteMy group is white, female, ages 15-24, and not a high school graduate. Much like Christina said, our unemployment curve had only minor increases and decreases, but it has gone slightly upward. We are at 20.1%. This upward slope is just evidence for the recession we're currently enduring.
ReplyDeleteMy group would be Hispanic, female, ages 15-24, and not a high school graduate. The unemployment rate for my group is 29.9%. The rate is pretty high because of the fact that that this group is for young adults with no high school education, and also because it is a racial minority.
ReplyDeleteMy group is White -> Female -> 15-24 -> No High School Education, and clearly we're super duper unemployed (20.1%). And why? We live with and mooch off of our parents, plus, we're unskilled labor and unreliable, why hire us? It is strange to see how every other ethnicity has a higher unemployment rate, even with the same inputs. I wonder if this is due to racism, or if the person created by the environment they grew up in is deemed unworthy of hiring due to their background.
ReplyDeleteAs a hispanic, I am often considered a minority here in America; what does that actually mean? Well it means that I may often have a stereotype attached to me for being lazy, or not understanding things as easily as Americans. Often there can also be, with most hispanics, a language barrier. The Hispanic, female group ages 15-24 without a high school diploma has an unemployment percentage of a whomping 29.9%. We are considered unskilled labor. With the minimum wage being so high up, an employer mights as well hire a high school graduate who cannot find work rather than an uneducated female who cannot even show evidence to having completed something succesfully in life.
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