Underemployment Quotes
The Arab countries (with the exception of Jordan) did not allow the Palestinian refugees to work or to establish their own factories or to accept economic development. Any semblance of independence would, the Arab leaders thought, remove pressure to have the refugees returned to Israel. In contrast, hundreds of thousands of Jews were forcibly expelled from the Arab countries and all those refugees who went to Israel were given citizenship and absorbed into the economy and culture.
What was so unusual about Mrs. Roosevelt was that she came from a very wealthy, upper class, family. She never had to work a day in her life; nor did the men in her family. Yet she learned about, understood, and empathized with the poor and their problems in a way that few “aristocrats” and politicians ever did.
The existence of a groups of de facto “unemployable” people has been with our country since its inception. However over time, the cadre of unemployable people has changed as the simple jobs are lost to automation and computerized solutions and the jobs that are left require an extensive education and skills set. While the New Deal programs helped reduce the numbers of unemployable people, and WWII required such great production, by the 21st century, the “unemployable” population had grown substantially and proportionately from 1936.
On observing unemployment in France while it was virtually unknown then in America:
And also those who are employed have their wages driven down.
