2009 vs 1887: A Grim Look at History of Unemployment

[nelrish24]

waw

[Kritiker9]

I would like to hear what pulled the people out of farms. Where there too many on farms. Did they want to get independent from their families or landlords...?

[mickyboy200768]

@Kritiker9 , end of slavery, millions of plantation slaves left the farms for freedom and headed to cities

[ELLEONTHEJUDA07]

Casually brought up and informative...

[louis12346]

Animal- id bill & clean water act will close down the rest of small farms

[pshinspections]

The guy is wrong in his assumptions about slavery, but the topic is interesting.

[InTheSticks1881]

The current and real unemployment rate is somewhere between 16-17%.

[dreamthinker79]

its been 2 monthes, and now its somewhere between 19-21%

[tenorama]

USA is turning latino illegals immigrants country, they are working doing jobs most jobless americans want to do

[pshinspections]

Not so. Those employers are simply breaking the law in employing illegals. We are a nation of laws. You must follow the law before you learn how to bend it. Illegal employment is a crime. Going around it, for any reason, is contributory to the problem, not the solution.

[befranklintoo]

the bankers pull the same stunt before a hundred years ago

just before the kindling of the first world war. the historian who does not live in the real world does not know history.

[thunderpants10]

Technocracy does not fight unemployment, it embraces it.

In 1887 there was no choice but we don't have to live like that anymore.

Technocracy / The venus project, it's coming.

[skeletonmom]

Future Employment: less stuff-based businesses and more people-based businesses, please!

Less wasting natural resources and more care for our citizens.

Hopefully that (and alternative fuel) will be big industries very soon...

[TheEvolver311]

its going to be a ruff recovery, unemployment will not recover easily. to much of our corporate production sectors are based over seas, these groups have traditionally helped curb unemployment but it doesn't look to be the case in our modern economy.