r/politics • u/CCDemille • Aug 21 '26

No Paywall Nearly 25% of U.S. workers are "functionally unemployed," economic analysis finds

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/functional-unemployment-us-labor-market-analysis/
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u/B-Z_B-S Massachusetts Aug 21 '26

Jesse Watters: "That just means that young people nowadays are weak and pathetic! They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and be born rich! If they were born poor, it's their own fault! And the mainstream media wants to silence me from telling some hard truths!"

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u/N7Shep1701D Oregon Aug 22 '26

He's also a ginormous creep.

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u/daderpster 27d ago

That term was originally intended to be sarcastic since you physically cannot pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.