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Re:‘I Would Prefer Not To’: The Origins of the White Collar ... by VLM on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @08:10AM (#9262361)
"there are still enough jobs to go around."

The actual statistics beg to differ with you. And the trend is not our friend, either.

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Re:‘I Would Prefer Not To’: The Origins of the White Collar ... by peteretep on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @09:44PM (#9267320)
Can you link me up to your source? All the ones I can find suggest that there's no trend at all to support what you're saying...

Here's 1880-1995:

file:///Users/petersergeant/Downloads/unemploymentbackto1881_tcm77-267536.pdf

And then 1992-2015:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10604117

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