The following chart shows the total food stamp participants divided by the total manufacturing employees, construction employees, agriculture employees, and information services employees.
Click to enlarge.
Boo!
See Also:
Headline for Next Friday: "U.S. Private Employment at All Time High"
Source Data:
St. Louis Fed: Custom Chart
USDA: SNAP Annual Summary
New Home Sales Increase to 693,000 Annual Rate in March; Median New Home
Price is Down 13% from the Peak
-
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: New Home Sales
Increase to 693,000 Annual Rate in March
Brief excerpt:
The Census Bureau reports Ne...
2 hours ago
4 comments:
aka 'the new normal'
finally fired off a letter to Krugman this morning:
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1240598
this is the same thing I pound on over and over online.
I made a suggestion that CR retire his blog because it is now obsolete, now that we are at the permanently high plateau. Plus, I'm told things can only get better from here.
Head. Anvil. Whack. Head. Wall. Whack. Head. Desk. Whack. Whack. Whack.
Troy,
I'm not a religious person but..
Amen.
Mr Slippery,
Head. Anvil. Whack. Head. Wall. Whack. Head. Desk. Whack. Whack. Whack.
Love the visuals! You've taken SRD (Sarcastic Reality Despair) to a whole new cartoon level!
It's like how Wile E. Coyote should expect his recently purchased Rube Goldberg Prosperity machine from the fully automated Acme Corporation to perform, lol.
Beep! Beep! ;)
Post a Comment