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**8cyVn4RJ** · 01-04-2011, 07:17 PM

And in the 70's, the 80's, and the 90's.

Well, I don't know how old you are - I know I wasn't paying that much attention to unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s - never really struggled to find a job during the 1980s or 1990s anyway until after the dot bomb.

But, I suppose that this leads to a bigger question - is "full employment" in the new definition an attainable goal. The older definition was a single person out of the household. That has shifted over the last 30-40 years to mean all people >16-18 years of age in a household are employed. Is that a reasonable goal?

01-04-2011, 07:17 PM	#36
8cyVn4RJ Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 488 Senior Member	And in the 70's, the 80's, and the 90's. Well, I don't know how old you are - I know I wasn't paying that much attention to unemployment in the 1970s and 1980s - never really struggled to find a job during the 1980s or 1990s anyway until after the dot bomb. But, I suppose that this leads to a bigger question - is "full employment" in the new definition an attainable goal. The older definition was a single person out of the household. That has shifted over the last 30-40 years to mean all people >16-18 years of age in a household are employed. Is that a reasonable goal?
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