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But for the legions of still-unemployed and underemployed workers, the news is less promising.
FORBES: Unemployment: The Good News, The Bad News, and What To Do About It
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Hocus-pocus a wave of a wand and millions of unemployed and underemployed workers vanish.
FORBES: The Crisis of America's Uncounted Unemployed
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Latin America is filled with megacities teeming with shanty towns housing unemployed and underemployed workers from the countryside, whose move didn't stop those nations from stalling economically.
WSJ: China's Population Shifts to Cities
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China still has perhaps 200m underemployed rural workers who could move to factories over the next two decades, so wages for low-skilled workers are rising more slowly than productivity, reducing China's unit labour costs.
ECONOMIST: More pain than gain
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From his new perch, Dr. Reich will review applications from underemployed American Postal Workers Union members interested in starting new careers in medicine.
FORBES: Doctor Shortage? Let Idled Postal Workers Fill In! (Satire)
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Not so according to the U-6 unemployment rate, which includes not only unemployed but underemployed and discouraged workers, it actually rose to 16.9% this month.
FORBES: Discouraged Workers And The Illusion Of The V-Shaped Jobs Recovery
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However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports on a category of workers who will almost surely be involuntarily underemployed as a result of health reform: the 10 million part-timers who now work 30-34 hours per week.
WSJ: Daniel Kessler: The Coming ObamaCare Shock
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Jobs need to be found for the 150m peasants who, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), are underemployed in the fields, and the 10m-11m surplus workers in state enterprises, which specialise in disguising unemployment.
ECONOMIST: Ah, there's the brake pedal
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We ought to pass the GI bill for America's workers I proposed -- that would give every unemployed and underemployed person a skills grant to use in getting the training that he or she needs.
CNN: Bill Clinton Speaks To A Meeting Of Newspaper Editors