A Boring Dystopia

9728 readers

766 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

givesomefucks

227

Homelessness rose sharply in the U.S. in 2023, data shows (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago by return2ozma to c/aboringdystopia

29 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] NightAuthor 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I’d just critique:

Which definition of “unemployment” are you referring to though?

Im asumming youre referring to the one the whitehouse likes to use, where they count minimum wage part time work as employed, and dont count people who gave up looking for work as unemployed.

Labor participation rates are improved but still relatively low lttps://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

[–] Wutangforemer 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah that's the one I was referring to in response to OP, but measure it by whichever indicator you want (federal unemployment numbers, jobs growth, help wanted listing, increasing pay rates, union contract negotiation outcomes). 'Unemployment' (nor underemployment, nor labor participation) is not currently indicative as the causation for the housing affordability problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Or relatively high, depending on which period you're comparing it to (high compared to 50's, low compared to 90's).