Lunch topic : what percentage of people earned at least some income today?

[Mini 9]

davester wrote:
Lunch topic? This was posted at 4:34 pm pacific time. Where do you live, Hawaii?

It was our lunch topic. Discussed at lunch. I did not claim I was posting during lunch or aka LIVE, did I?
It took me 5 hours while 'earning income' at work to type that in, proofread it, edit it, pee, sleep, watch tv, etc. to finally get it all gussied up for you!

Or do you want me to revert to quantity over quality again?

[Mini 9]

So, 67% would be 'on a good day'?
Thanks for the valuable stats! I'll feed them into tomorrow's discussion.
Helps take mind of crummy existence and crummier food.

ztirffritz wrote:
(2009 est.) (from Wikipedia)

* 0–14 years: 20.2% - no income
(male 31,639,127/female 30,305,704)
* 15–64 years: 67.0% (this is the number to dissect)
(male 102,665,043/female 103,129,321)
* 65 years and over: 12.8% - probably no income
(male 16,901,232/female 22,571,696)

of the 67% of the population at an age where they might be earning income, we claim to have a 10% unemployment rate, but that number is actually low because that only represents people collecting benefits. Many people have expired benefits, or they never had a job to begin with. A staggering number of black males are in prison. (about .75% of the entire US Population is in prison, 2.3 million) Quite a few women still don't work outside of the home (many ARE working I assure you, just not earning an income) Given unemployment, prison population, and housewives, I'd say that knocks it down to at least 35%. I don't think 25% is such a stretch.

[bazookaman]

You lost me at "What".

[Mini 9]

well, that tells me which column to check off for YOU!

[OWC Jamie]

Did you know you can burn rum ?

[Mini 9]

I had an aunt burn boiled eggs really badly once.

[JoeH]

"I know the baby boomers are a huge population HUMP. But many of them are at or into retirement age."

Since I was born in the middle of that baby boomer generation, and have at least 10 years to go before retiring, you might want to rethink your statement. This group is just starting to retire now, most are not at retirement age yet and will be retiring over the next 20 something years.

[Mini 9]

factor in the huge hippy-percentage, and the newly retired, and they distinctly fall into the non-earners.

[JoeH]

Mini 9 wrote:
factor in the huge hippy-percentage, and the newly retired, and they distinctly fall into the non-earners.

Always was a small percentage of that demographic, just a lot of wannabe's. Remember, those born in 1945 are just turning 65, it is the generation before that is mostly retired. Since the "baby boomer" tag includes those born from 1946 to 1964, it will be a bit before we are all retired. oapbox:

[Mini 9]

I say, retire now and let the younger, better, cheaper workers have a job. Dammmmmmm man, quit being selfish with da' employment.