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Comment by paxys

Lots of assertions in the article, but the only fact I see is that new college grads looking for work had a 6.6% unemployment rate over the last 12 months, along with a hand-wavey

> about the highest level in a decade—excluding the pandemic unemployment spike

Why "about"? What was this number 5 years ago? 10 years ago? 20 years ago? During the dotcom bubble? The housing crisis? An actual recent crisis (the pandemic) is conveniently excluded from the comparison for some reason.

Weird for the WSJ to declare an "unemployment crisis" based on a handful of anecdotes and no actual data.

parent paxys 1 year ago

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