[mikepurvis]

Does that one graph really tell the whole story? Things not captured here include:

- underemployment, like law school grads working in book stores because no lawyer needs a clerk now that computers do the research for them.

- contractors vs. part time vs. full time. I've seen it asserted that we've lost a lot of salaried positions in favour of contractor arrangements (gig economy) or shift work.

- people who've transitioned from unemployed to being on long-term Medicaid—I don't believe they count as "unemployed", but various mental illness issues can be caused or made worse by being long-term out of work.