Unemployed More Likely to Go Shopping Than Look for a Job. Jobless more likely to watch TV, socialize, play sports than look for work

[rangerrebew]

Unemployed More Likely to Go Shopping Than Look for a Job
Jobless more likely to watch TV, socialize, play sports than look for work
 
AP

BY: Ali Meyer   
July 25, 2016 4:58 am

Unemployed Americans are more likely to shop for things other than food and gas than to look for a new job on an average day, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Only 18 percent of unemployed Americans spent time searching or interviewing for a job on an average day, while 41.1 percent shopped online, in store, or by phone. About one in five unemployed Americans, or 21.2 percent, went shopping for items other than food and gas.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/unemployed-likely-go-shopping-look-job/

[bob434]

the reason they don't look is because our president has failed to create all those jobs he said he would, AND employers have been forced to cut back their staff because of healthcare costs-

[mountaineer]

What business can hire when the minimum wage is jacked up irrationally, health insurance coverage is mandated and a good number of potential employees are illiterate or on drugs (that last part describes my region, anyway)?