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Sunday August 08, 2004
08:02 AM
IT unemployment
From InformationWeek reporting on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (via Slashdot), here are the unemployment rates
for IT professionals broken out by category:
- DB Admins:
- 2.8%
- Software Engineers:
- 3.2%
- Managers:
- 4.6%
- Sys Admins:
- 5.7%
- System Analysts:
- 8.2%
- Programmers:
- 8.3%
National average for unemployement across all industries: 5.3%.
Since I know there are a few programmers on this site, I'm betting these numbers aren't all that surprising to you. If you don't like these numbers, perhaps you can do something about it.
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Jobs and Elections (Score:2)
The reason why there is high unemployment is because of the business cycle. Whoever is in office can do very little to change that, and close to nothing during four years in office.
The bad economy in 1992 was the result of plans and policies from the late 1980s. The seeds of change that Clinton put into place didn't really take effect until his second term. The long term economic instability that W had
Re:Jobs and Elections (Score:1)
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Thank you for the nod, Zig.
Normally, I'd agree with you. Bush seems to be more culpable than other presidents for the regression in jobs, particularly in the tech market.
Re:Jobs and Elections (Score:2)
But offshoring is also about sending jobs to Ireland, Canada, Australia and elsewhere. Most detractors conveniently forget this part
Re:Jobs and Elections (Score:2)
This is false. Those tax credits do exist, but they existed before Bush took office. Also, offshoring is a very small problem, accounting for 2.5% of major layoffs in 1Q 2004.
And what would Kerry's plan do? It would tax foreign income right away, instead of allowing it to be deferred. Kerry would also LOWER the corporate tax rate, by 1.75 percent, and they would keep the tax credit that you're bemoaning, t
doesn't look that way to me (Score:1)
You don't give Bush ANY credit for that? (Score:1)
This is not credit of the kind that Bush wants, but still it is credit for Bush.