Yasu, Yanis! Interesting to hear your remarks last monday at the New School in NYC. Same problems in the States, where those people falling out of the unemployment number because their unemployment benefits are exhausted, (although have yet to become employed and are still unemloyment) and thus fall into the 'safety net' of public assistance and food stamps (the number of people falling into using 'safety net' social services has plumed significantly ) but are not often correlated let alone even mentioned, with the significant number of what are called to be "disappointed workers' who are alleged to have left the workforce rather than something more insidious and revealing of forms of commercial and cultural war on many americans. Many of different creeds, races or ethnicities are being shunned and rejected from being offered bona fide employment appropriate to their skills and abilities, and as a result fall outside of 'pecking orders' that are granted favor, whereas the shunned are rejected or pushed into lower economic rungs in society. When these 'return' to the work force, they're characterized as new entrants to the work force, some of which are young people entering the workforce for the first time. Often however they're among those than had been shunned and the roles in which they're employed are disengenously characterized as 'new' jobs, when often they're lower level jobs that will employ people on for seasonal purposes.

This all has contributed to a 'headline' unemployment ratio of 5% and with 'fewer workers' when unemployed filing unemployment benefits than since the 70s because the actual number of employed people has shrunk to the lowest number since the 70s as compared to the number of working age people. the NY Fed website has the data, and graphics showing the 'broader' unemployment rate at approx 10% or so. Most likely this also is an under counting to the true number of unemployed working age americans, many of which are misrepresented as 'disappointed' workers who have left the workforce, rther than the more truthful definition that after unemployment benefits have expired, they're ignored and those numbers of those people are tracked but again not reported in the truthful way. This all roots back to GHWB's 1988/89 G8 Agreements with Germany to deindustrialize the US to as to indirectly subsidize germany's re unification costs while 'aligning' the US economy with that of the Europeans' 'managed' competition which gives a great deal of dominance to its national champions. Meanwhile in effect GHWB gave over the US economy to the long waged non hot war which Germany and its lurking behind the curtain concordat partner (papacy) have been waging on the US, Britian and Russia (an orthodox country and against all orthodox peoples, countries and regions)