This week's Lost Limerick is kind of a buzzkill, but I'm counting on you to tough it out, for art's sake. Fill in the blank with the word or phrase from this week's Oregon news:
No one's hiring for clerking or booking,
Gas pumping or short-order cooking,
Jobless numbers are flat,
But the cause might be that
More job seekers are no longer __________ .
(The answer can be found in the Comments below, or in this week's Spanning the State at Loaded Orygun.)
1 comment:
The answer: Looking
This is not one of our more upbeat limericks.
The story: Oregon's unemployment numbers appear to have "leveled off" last month at 11.1%.
But that figure doesn't include people who have simply taken themselves out of the game, either by going back to school or simply trying to ride the bad times out.
An economist at the U of O said this week that, if we included in the count those job-seekers who've just given up, Oregon's 11.1% figure would be "through the roof."
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