gop-tea-pub:

One
of biggest reasons people remain unemployed, underemployed, or
underpaid, is because they simply refuse to move. In the past, families
used to more frequently migrate towards areas of the country which had
greater job opportunities. Now a days, unfortunately, people have the
attitude that jobs should come to THEM. Some of this is due to attitude,
but some is also due to the unintended consequences of public policy.

First, here’s the evidence that things used to be different: In 1947,
20.2% of the population moved at some point during the year. [a] That
was not an outlier. Fast forward to 1984 and again 20.2% of the
population was still moving at some point during the year. [a] Matter of
fact, for decades, this was the norm. The figure averaged 19.44% from
1947 -1984, always hovering around that 19-20%. [a] But from 1984 to the
present era, that number steadily declined. By 2016-2017, only 11% of
the population moved during the year. [a] While it would be foolish to
claim this one factor determines employment, it IS reasonable to
acknowledge such a factor contributes. Further research supports this
notion by tracking the specific reason why people moved. The data we
have for this goes back to 1980, where 41.8% of job seekers said they
relocated for new positions. [e] Fast forward to 2018 and, thus far,
only 10.1% of job seekers said they were relocating to find new
positions. [e] Some people may object to this point by claiming that the
rise in two income households, meaning wives working as well as their
husbands, has made it less plausible to coordinate family relocations.
The data which counters this, however, shows that such a talking point
is out dated. Contrary to popular misconception, by 1980, the average
number of income earners in a consumer-unit (aka a household) was 1.4.
[f] Fast forward to the present and that number was mostly unchanged at
1.3 by 2017. [g] So while it may be true that, prior to 1980, families
were more likely to be singe-income households, that factor simply
stopped changing by 1980. Despite that, the number of households moving
to find work continued to decline, meaning that decline cannot
reasonably be tied to the number of workers within a household. This is
clear evidence that people in need of work simply aren’t as willing or
able to find it as they used to be. The question is, why?

Four suspect causes contribute:
• Attitude
• Homeownership subsidies
• Land use restrictions
• Occupational licensing

▪️ATTITUDE:
Essentially, we have gradually grown spoiled, with each passing decade
insisting more and more that we need not relocate. With a few minor
exceptions, this trend continued regardless of whether jobs were
plentiful, and that’s the point, it shouldn’t have. We SHOULD have seen a
change in relocation behavior. For instance, by September 30th of 2018,
7,009,000 job openings existed. [h] Around the same time, October 2018,
only 6.1 million people were unemployed. [i] In other words, at this
time, there were more job openings than unemployed people seeking work.
So the jobs WERE there, people just weren’t filling them, and the trend
in people’s relocation behavior continued to decline. This suggests an
attitude problem.

▪️HOMEOWNERSHIP SUBSIDIES
America’s declining mobility rates are partly the result of subsidies
gifted to homeowners, per Yale Law Professor David Schleicher, who
authored a study entitled, “Stuck In Place: Law and the Economic
Consequences of Residential Stability.“ It occurs through the mortgage
tax credit, which is a direct subsidy of roughly $200 billion a year (or
as high as $600 billion when indirect costs are taken into account).
[b] Common sense would dictate, and the Census confirms, homeowners are
less likely to move than renters, and that has been the case for
decades. [b] For instance, just 5% of homeowners moved in 2016 compared
to 22.9% of renters. [b] The point is, when you subsidize something, you
get more of it than you otherwise would have under organic
circumstances. If people aren’t financially secure enough to afford
houses as opposed to apartments or rented rooms, then we shouldn’t be
encouraging them to purchase an asset that prevents them from relocating
when necessary. We are, in a sense, enabling unscrupulous prioritizing.
Instead, people should first stabilize their careers and only THEN
stabilize their geographical location by committing to long term home
ownership.

▪️LAND USE RESTRICTIONS
The economists Chang-Tai Hsieh of University of Chicago and Enrico
Moretti of the University of California at Berkeley argue that zoning
laws, construction caps, and subdivision regulations, limit the supply
of housing. They gathered data from 220 metropolitan areas and found
that land-use constraints lowered aggregate US growth by an estimated
36% from 1964 to 2009. [c] As their paper explains, “Misallocation
arises because high productivity cities like New York and the San
Francisco Bay Area have adopted stringent restrictions to new housing
supply, effectively limiting the number of workers who have access to
such high productivity.” [c]

▪️OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING
Many professionals are licensed at the state level. Matter of fact,
‘the share of the workforce that falls under some sort of licensing
requirement has risen from 5 percent in the 1950s to almost 25 percent
in 2008.“ [d] Such licensing requirements make it more difficult to move
out of state, where wages or opportunities are potentially superior.

CONCLUSION:
Whether it be attitude, unintended consequences, or both, our populace
is clearly less likely to migrate and find the career opportunities
which already exist. This contributes to people being unnecessarily
unemployed, underemployed, or underpaid, and it need not be that way. It
used to be different.
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Sources:
[a]
https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/tables/geographic-mobility/time-series/historic/tab-a-1.xls

[b]
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2896309

[c]
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/chang-tai.hsieh/research/growth.pdf

[d]
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2896309

[e]
http://www.challengergray.com/press/press-releases/historical-analysis-fewer-job-seekers-relocating-new-positions

[f]
https://books.google.com/books?id=XMytw21IZugC&pg=PA430&lpg=PA430&dq=consumer+unit+characteristics%2C+1983&source=bl&ots=ByaJufcnSO&sig=H7AOYwqEi-_zG6aheDjScIY7OPY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1yvG8z77eAhVRnlkKHRRIAwYQ6AEwA3oECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=consumer%20unit%20characteristics%2C%201983&f=false

[g]
https://www.bls.gov/cex/2017/combined/quintile.pdf

[h]
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.a.htm

[i]
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf

Data for the graph
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2016/comm/cb16-189_migration.html

raeucherweibchen:

6i:

you only feel lonely because you want something.

stop wanting. you are whole. detach yourself from the feeling of need. you are enough.

you only feel lonely bc humans evolved as a social species and were never meant to live in social isolation, slaving away day in day out with minimal contact to other people, that is very superficial at best not a single hint of intimacy, like it is the norm now lmfao no one can overwrite that by “detaching”, quite the contrary, detachment is a sign of depression CAUSED by severe social deprivation

I hate tumblr hot takes like that. our society is broken and anti-social and it’s making us SICK. normalizing this and pretending like it’s your personal failure that you can’t deal with something you were never meant to able to deal with bc we didn’t evolve to be alone is absolutely counter productive

redbloodedamerica:

The Story Behind the Cross Deemed Unconstitutional

Because
the cross-shaped Bladensburg World War I  Veteran’s Memorial, erected in 1925
to remember 49 men from Prince George’s County, Maryland, now sits on a tiny
patch of government grass.  A panel of judges from the US Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Circuit declared it unconstitutional.  Unless the Supreme Court of the
United States intervenes, this gravestone to 49 men who fell in the service of
freedom may be destroyed. 

Imagine what the family of Milton Edward Hartman
would say.  He was only a corporal in 1918 when he was killed in action.  So, you’d
think his memorial service would maybe draw a small gathering of family and
friends.  But in the summer of 1919 at the service for Corporal Hartman, they say
it looked like half the population of Forestville, Maryland showed up.  His
commanding officer was there.  The bishop of Washington was there.  One reporter
said the people “thronged the church and filled the courtyard 10 feet deep.”  They
listened through doors and open windows.  

But Corporal Hartman’s body was not there.  He was buried nearly 4,000 miles away in an American cemetery on European soil.  The marker over his grave: a simple cross with his dog tag.  Because so many soldiers
from Prince George’s County Maryland were buried in Europe, their Gold Star
Mothers wanted something nearby to help people remember.  So they hired an
architect and designed a cross-shaped memorial – a shape that echoed the grave
markers dotting the French countryside.  In 1925, the mothers and the American
Legion dedicated the Bladensburg World War I Veteran’s Memorial.  The large
plaque on the base still bears the names of their sons, including Corporal
Hartman.  Martha Redmond said she considered it to be her son William’s “gravestone.”  

For nearly a hundred years, it has quietly reminded everyone who drives by of
49 men from Prince George’s County, Maryland who made the ultimate sacrifice.  It
was originally built on private land, but the government claimed the property
when it expanded the adjacent highway.  Still a three-judge panel of the Fourth
Circuit ruled that the memorial is unconstitutional.  One judge on the Fourth
Circuit who disagreed with his colleagues decision wrote: “The dead cannot speak
for themselves.  But may the living hear their silence.”  As another judge said, the decision
by the Fourth Circuit “puts at risk hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of similar
monuments.”  

What monuments?  Well, less than 10 miles from Bladensburg sits
Arlington National Cemetery.  Unless the Supreme Court takes action, the Canadian
Cross of Sacrifice, the Argonne Cross, and others could face demolition as well.  And that would be just the beginning of the desecration of memorials all across
America.  

The people who stood 10 feet deep in the churchyard on that muggy
summer day at Corporal Hartman’s memorial service would surely be shocked at that
desecration.  They understood that memorials to the dead are reminders to the
living of service and sacrifice.  They would stand with the American Legion and
against those who had erased the memory of the fallen 49.  Will you?  

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

metalcatholic:

The prospect that anyone in your life can tell the government you’re suicidal/a danger to yourself, and the government can just take away your guns certainly isn’t violating an individuals rights and certainly won’t be abused by angry spouses, friends, coworkers as a means of lashing out or revenge :)))))))

pixarplanet:

The Toy Story 4 teaser trailer is here!

“Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called “Forky” to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy. Directed by Josh Cooley (“Riley’s First Date?”) and produced by Jonas Rivera (“Inside Out,” “Up”) and Mark Nielsen (associate producer “Inside Out”), Disney•Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” ventures to U.S. theaters on June 21, 2019.”

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)