🇺🇸 25% of Americans are “functionally unemployed," per Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity.
And 20% of job seekers have been looking for work for 10 to 12 months or longer.
📝 Functionally unemployed, per Ludwig Institute, includes those without full-time jobs (35+ hrs/week) who want them, the jobless, or earning under $25k/year pre-tax. Their True Rate of Unemployment is 24.3% as of May 2025, vs official 4.2%.
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Ontario’s euthanasia regulators have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations without a single criminal charge being laid.