(경제) 미 실업률
(경제) 미 실업률
The official unemployment rate hovers맴돌다 around 10%, but then there’s real life. The everyday reality in this country. As John Yang reports tonight from Chicago, the official numbers hardly tell the whole story when it comes to this job market. When Ruanda Wittson lost her job as head of corporate communications for a major media company in Boston last March, she moved hoping it would be easier to find a new one in Chicago. So far, nothing. “There are days when it’s very tough to get out of bed, but you have to make yourself do that.”
Like so many others, Wittson’s used upper state unemployment benefits and relies on emergency federal benefits. A record 6.1 million Americans have been out of work more than six months. More than double the number who’ve been jobless that long a year ago. “We’ve never seen anything like that before. People right now who are becoming unemployed are just getting stuck in unemployment for long periods.
As bad as the national unemployment rate is, analysts say it doesn’t even begin to show how bleak절망적인 things really are. Earlier this month, the government reported that 15.3 million Americans were unemployed and that the unemployment rate was 10%. But that doesn’t count the 9.2 million working part time because they can’t find full time jobs or the 1.5 million who hadn’t looked for work in the previous month or the 929,000 who were so discouraged, they’ve given up looking. That’s a total of 26.9 million people without a full time job. 17.3% of the workforce.
“The real question is, how long will it be before unemployment gets back to anywhere near the normal level of, say, 5%. I don’t think we’re going to be in that range for at least until 2012, perhaps even 2013.” That, that’s a major challenge for President Obama and the democrats in congress. In the new NBC News-Wall Street Journal Poll, 53% disapprove of the government’s response to the financial crisis. As her job search nears its 11 month, Ruanda Wittson focuses on staying positive. “There are jobs out there. So someday one of those would be mine.” “I’ll see you at 11:30. Give me a call.” And she is hoping it will be one day soon. John Yang, NBC News, Chicago.