2016 Postmortem

David__77

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4. Isn't this, at least in part, a function of demographic change?

Tue Dec 13, 2016, 07:22 PM

Dec 2016

Every year people leave the labor market (due to age or other reasons), and people enter the labor market (coming of age or other reasons). I suppose that the composition of labor market entrants is less white than the composition of those leaving the labor labor market, if only because younger people may be more non-white than older people. I think that more useful metrics might be unemployment rate rather than the absolute number of jobs.

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Whites lost 700,000 jobs over past nine years [View all] wellst0nev0ter Dec 2016 OP

Do you interpret this data as meaning whites lost jobs to minorities? David__77 Dec 2016 #1

But apparently they did not get a net gain from the job growth wellst0nev0ter Dec 2016 #3

Isn't this, at least in part, a function of demographic change? David__77 Dec 2016 #4

I used to own a factory and employed WhiteTara Dec 2016 #2

What are whites willing to do? yallerdawg Dec 2016 #5

the racial breakdown matters less than the fact that most new jobs suck. one person can't live TheFrenchRazor Dec 2016 #6

poor whites in rural areas... stillcool Dec 2016 #7

According to that chart, whites still have the overwhelming majority of the jobs. yardwork Dec 2016 #8

yeap, that and no statement on how many jobs PoC lost uponit7771 Dec 2016 #9

there is a fatal flaw in this analysis: it takes no account of changing demographics JustinL Dec 2016 #10