Colorado which fortunately has a low unemployment, rate now has twice as many legal marijuana stores and medical marijuana dispensaries than they have McDonalds and Starbucks.
Employers are having a very tough time finding applicants who can pass drug testing.

A red HONDA has plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in a busy Times Square,at least 13 injured.

... and this belongs in this thread WHY?

These idiots that fail the drug test for pot are too stupid to work to begin with.

If your out looking for a job stop smoking the stuff until you find a job. As long as the job does not demand random testing or you have a workplace accident no one will be the wiser.

Some of these fools must think the drug test is a written test.

Some fast food restaurants off the bus line are starting new hires at $11 an hour.

Old folks are still running Big Oil, thus, you're not going to convince them that drug testing is a waste of time and money.

These idiots that fail the drug test for pot are too stupid to work to begin with.

If your out looking for a job stop smoking the stuff until you find a job. As long as the job does not demand random testing or you have a workplace accident no one will be the wiser.

Some of these fools must think the drug test is a written test.

Canada's unemployment rate is at 6.5%, however, "as a percent of population", more Canadians are working than Americans, and our economy isn't that great.

April 2017 Stats

Canada

Population........36,585,570 (worldometers)

Employed..........18,311.2 million

% of population employed..........50.4%

Full-time.........14,785.9 million

Part-time.........3,525.2 million, % of total employed; 19.5%

unemployed........1,265.0 million

Unemployment rate.......6.5%

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/170505/t001a-eng.htm



U.S. population........326,193,414 (worldometers)

Employed...............151,028 million

% of population employed..........46.5%

Full-time.............118,888 million

Part-time.............32,140 million, % of total employed; 21.3%

Unemployed...........7,910 million

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm

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In other words, if 50.4% of U.S. population was working

326,193,414 X 50.4% = 164,400,000

an additional 13.4 million Americans would be working

Mr. bad robot,

Do you now have a clearer picture of your employment situation, i.e., how bad it was, and still is?

All of those numbers add up to be really no more than a bunch nonsense for the average person. The average person doesn't care. All they are concerned with is their employment situation.

One problem here in the US is a lot of people are not willing to move to where the jobs are at. Now that will change latter but for now folks are content to stay close to home.

I will stick my neck out and say about 65% of the college grads this year will move back to their home towns and most of them will move back in with their parents.

A lot of them won't get serious about finding a job until they have to.

But the way it looks now there are plenty of jobs. If someone wants to work there is a job to be had.

I never did trust that number. It has stayed at this 94 million for what seems like forever.

That figure should change over time but for some reason people quote it as fact and rarely question it.

If you want to use the 94.6 million this is who is included.

86.8 million are either retired disabled in school or job training and or off work taking care of a family member.

Now we are down to 7.6 million. 5.7 million have searched for a job for over a year and have given up searching.

1.9 million no one knows.

So really we are only looking at 5.7 million people.

Some folks just won't work and trying to teach them is a waste of time.

They did just test a new robotic fruit picker that worked very well.

Some folks just won't work and trying to teach them is a waste of time.

They did just test a new robotic fruit picker that worked very well.