Why Can't the Poor be Like Us?

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Originally Posted by nailer

Although DQ's article is not about the unemployment rate and the labor market.

Oh, but the "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" comment clearly is. What a better time to start "pulling" when many employers are having trouble filling jobs of all types. From the posted CNBC article:

Andrew Hunter, U.S. economist at Capital Economics, said the ISM number alone is consistent with GDP growth of better than 4 percent, though he thinks the second quarter will be in the 3 percent to 3.5 percent range.