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A-25. Persons at work 1 to 34 hours in all and in nonagricultural industries by reason for working less than 35 hours and usual full- or part-time status 25.3 million usually work part time, 5.2 for economic reasons, 20.1 non-economic.There's no minimum pay. I don't know where he's getting that $20 number from. And unpaid work in a family business or farm is employed if 15 or more hours.From Jim Clifton is Chairman and CEO at Gallup.
If you perform a minimum of one hour of work in a week and are paid at least $20 -- maybe someone pays you to mow their lawn -- you're not officially counted as unemployed in the much-reported 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
Why would you count someone who has a job as unemployed?Yet another figure of importance that doesn't get much press: those working part time but wanting full-time work. If you have a degree in chemistry or math and are working 10 hours part time because it is all you can find -- in other words, you are severely underemployed -- the government doesn't count you in the 5.6%. Few Americans know this.
If it was purported or presented to be a measure of suffering then that would be true. But it is not meant to be and no one has ever claimed it is a measure of suffering.There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
In December, there were 8.3 million people not working but looking for work, 6.2 million not working who said they wanted a job but hadn't looked for work in the last month or were unable to accept a job if offered. And 7 million who want to and could work 35+ hours/week, but worked less than that due to slow business or couldn't find full time job. (all numbers not seasonally adjusted). That's far short of his 6 million.Right now, as many as 30 million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me, the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling" unemployment.But about 3/4 of those who work part time are voluntary, not due to economic reasons.Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S. is delivering at a staggeringly low rate of 44%, which is the number of full-time jobs as a percent of the adult population, 18 years and older.
Your "3/4" who work guesstimate way off.. FACTS where are yours?
Through the first six months of the year, 13.2 percent of U.S. workers were in voluntary part-time jobs
Is Obamacare causing a surge in part-time work - CBS News[/QUOTE]
That's of ALL workers. By that, only 3.6% of all workers are part time for economic reasons.
I said 3/4 of part timers, not all workers.