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#workforce

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RaymondPierreL3

@MaxG
I will read in full in just a moment, but straight off the bat, the ‘pollster’ correctly confess this is an ‘estimate’ in their first paragraph. They estimated that the workforce (employed and unemployed, 14+ though no upper limit is stated) grew over the last month. They do not cite where they got those figures from either.

And then, in the next para, they tell us that the workforce grew due to more getting employment? What? Makes no sense to me whatsoever. #Workforce growth can only occur due to #immigration numbers and those who happened to turn 14 that month.

See where I’m going with this? Bad start if these guys wish to gain my trust.

But in discussing the RBA reasoning for a pause on the cash rate, it is only relevent to talk about the #RBA (and financial markets) definition of full employment because it is an agreed definition with which to base a discussion of the RBA’s monetary policy.

Yes, it’s a realtive thing and definitions matter. And if I were to discuss the unemployment situation, other statistical definition would be used to truly reflect how many poeple are not employed ( and I’d be using ABS Census results for that — if I were)

I agree with you, too many are #unemployed and the social programs inadequate… bring on #UBI. i say.

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Nonilex

#Legal experts said the pattern of conduct is unprecedented for any presidential admin & threatens to undermine the #judiciary’s role as a check on an #ExecutiveBranch asserting vast #powers that test the boundaries of the #law & #Constitution. #Immigration cases have emerged as the biggest flash point, but the admin has also been repeatedly accused of failing to comply in lawsuits involving cuts to federal #funding & the #workforce.
#Trump #democracy #SeparationOfPowers #Autocracy #AbuseOfPower

beSpacific

Forget It #Ketanji, It’s #Chinatown. #JusticeJackson stood alone against #shadowdocket ruling opening door to #Trump gutting #federal #workforce. The phrase lives on warning when #corruption runs so deep that there’s no fighting it. In the film the bad guy is a rich #realestate baron who manipulates a government agency, bilks #senior citizens for personal profit. Despite pervasive criminality, he’s actually backed up by law enforcement who aid abet his dirty work. abovethelaw.com/2025/07/forget

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William Lindsey :toad:

"'Most Americans don’t want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.'“

Why is this happening, this disruption of a significant agricultural process that helps feed the entire nation? Lisa Tate is clear-eyed on that point:

It's happening because of Trump and ICE, because immigrant workers are being terrorized.


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William Lindsey :toad:

Lisa Tate, a Ventura County, California, farmer talks about what's happening on farms in that county, where fruit and vegetables are grown to supply the whole country:

“'In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone,' she said in an interview. 'If 70% of your workforce doesn’t show up, 70% of your crop doesn’t get picked and can go bad in one day.'"


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theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

The Guardian · Ice raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: ‘We need the labor’By Guardian staff reporter
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