Our Employment Pickle (Musical Tribute)

The following chart shows day care employees as a percent of women workers aged 20 to 44.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhBYl-V3dFczL04kN_m3e-AA4eLSnhew12MB909K9bTH7amf0inKhDs2ghbo0EsEbSqW8gvKrNc-ScvwAoEsw5JjtX5XMvwsdRceToE20hZ4sqJCpsUKLSMMoTl8Csfl_oLu6ufeUsVIw/s1600/Day+Care+Employees.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhBYl-V3dFczL04kN_m3e-AA4eLSnhew12MB909K9bTH7amf0inKhDs2ghbo0EsEbSqW8gvKrNc-ScvwAoEsw5JjtX5XMvwsdRceToE20hZ4sqJCpsUKLSMMoTl8Csfl_oLu6ufeUsVIw/s320/Day+Care+Employees.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />Stick a fork in that trend. It's not only over, but it's rolling over.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Fork-Someone%27s-Yard-Prank">How to Fork Someone's Yard Prank</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>If you want to get a little more creative, buy some pickles (or anything that will stick on a fork), and add them to the forks.</i></div><br />Genius! That's just what this economy needs. More pickles!<br /><br /><b>January 12, 2013</b><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/sunday-review/americas-productivity-climbs-but-wages-stagnate.html?_r=0">Our Economic Pickle</a><br /><br /><div style="color: #666666;"><i>It is often thought that college graduates can escape these unfortunate wage trends. But college graduates — hit by the bursting of the tech bubble in the late 1990s and then by the deep recession — have been hit hard, too. <span style="color: red;">Seventy percent of the nation’s college grads have had their after-inflation hourly wages decline since 2000</span>, according to the Economic Policy Institute, with the typical graduate experiencing a 3.1 percent decline.</i></div><br />The future's so bright I gotta whistle!<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/kzMdqq6Z3n4" width="420"></iframe><br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://www.bls.gov/data/#employment">BLS: Employment</a><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mdk">St. Louis Fed: Employment Level - 20 to 44 years, Women</a>

Our Employment Pickle (Musical Tribute)

The following chart shows day care employees as a percent of women workers aged 20 to 44. Click to enlarge. Stick a fork in that trend. It...

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