I have been unable to post a new topic all afternoon in Current Events.
I just posted in Mike's thread without a problem.
I have used both IE and Firefox with the same results.
The screen with IE:
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I have been unable to post a new topic all afternoon in Current Events.
I just posted in Mike's thread without a problem.
I have used both IE and Firefox with the same results.
The screen with IE:
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Here is what I have been trying to post as a thread starter:
Where have all the workers gone?
Often mentioned here, for various reasons, has been the large numbers of people who simply are not participating in the workforce. While the general claim as to that cause has been routed in politics (right/left) it has become abundantly clear there is a real---identifiable cause---opioids.
If you don’t like this source, there are many more from which you can choose, all with the same story.Executive Summary
This study examines the labor market and economic consequences of the opioid crisis. While previous studies have estimated economic costs of the opioid epidemic, none has taken into account the most significant way opioid dependency is likely impacting the U.S. economy: its impact on labor force participation. This study measures the direct cost on the economy of opioids leading workers out of the labor force. Specifically, it estimates the number of workers who are absent from the labor force due to opioids, the loss of hours at work, and the resulting decline in real output. It finds:
In 2015, 919,400 prime-age individuals were not in the labor force due to opioids;
Between 1999 and 2015, the decline in labor force participation cumulatively cost the economy 12.1 billion work hours; and
During that period, the reduction in work hours slowed the real annual economic growth rate by 0.2 percentage points, cumulatively costing $702.1 billion in real output.
This is particularly hard hitting in the 25 to 35 year old age group that should be going into the skilled trades---they simply are not there.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Dave,
I copied your post above and used it to start a new thread in Current Event. It worked for me. My guess is the error is being caused by a DNS error that is not affecting my area. Hopefully, the problem will be quickly resolved.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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Thank you sir!
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Damn... almost got rid of him....
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It’s those nasty Russians again.
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