Christophe wrote:Yes like everywhere in Western Europe I think ...
So we should multiply these deaths not roughly 2?
I don't know exactly how his figures are calculated, but they are already very important.
And it's not any better across the Atlantic, despite thunderous announcements from the Trump administration.
The low figure praised by Donald Trump hides a completely different reality: more than 20 million inactive people are not counted and underemployment persists.
With unemployment at 3,9%, the lowest since 2000, and nearly 4 million jobs created under his presidency, Donald Trump has reason to rejoice. He does not deprive himself of it, in the approach of the mid-term elections, at risk for his majority. “The US economy is thriving more than ever. The demands for unemployment benefits are at the lowest in fifty years ”, thus welcomed the President, Tuesday, at the rostrum of the United Nations. "Taken as a whole, and from a purely statistical point of view, the job market in the United States is very dynamic and very tense," analyzes economist Robert Lerman, researcher at the Urban Institute.
But the only unemployment rate, which Donald Trump himself described, before his election, as a “bogus figure” which is largely underestimated, masks a much less brilliant reality. First downside: the participation rate in the labor market, from 66% in 2008 to 62,7% today among those over 15 years of age. The factors are multiple, and for some decorrelated from the state of the economy: increase in the number of students, retirement of baby boomers.
The figures for 25-54 year-olds, however, illustrate a worrying trend: the growing share of inactive adults, men in particular. Within this category, the activity rate has dropped from 91% before the 2008 crisis to less than 89% today. According to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 23 million inactive adults aged 25 to 54 are thus completely excluded from the employment statistics. Neither unemployed nor workers, they embody an alarming form of social breakdown. Many experts partly attribute this phenomenon to the epidemic of opiates ravaging the country.
https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2018/09/30/etats-unis-chomage-un-taux-trop-bas-pour-etre-vrai_1682272