Friday, March 28, 2014

The Scariest Employment Chart Ever

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
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4 comments:

  1. TroyMarch 28, 2014 at 6:50 PM

    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.

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  2. Mr SlipperyMarch 28, 2014 at 7:42 PM

    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.

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  3. Stagflationary MarkMarch 28, 2014 at 8:39 PM

    Troy,

    I'm not a religious person but..

    Amen.

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  4. Stagflationary MarkMarch 28, 2014 at 8:46 PM

    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! ;)

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