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Farmers Are Well “Employed”
A Labor Department analysis of U. S. unemployment by occupation caught our eve in the news the other day. Where is least unemployment found these days, would you say? That’s right, farmers and farm managers have the lowest unemployment rate of any group in the study. Their jobless rate is only .005 per cent, whereas the over-all rate for the population as a whole is around 5.3 per cent.
After farmers in the low-jobless category come other managers, 1.6 per cent unemployed; professional and technical workers, 1.8 per cent; public administrators, 2.2 per cent; and craftsmen and foremen, 2.8 per cent. Teenagers as a group lead the unemployed with 13.8 per cent out of work, followed by younger women, 9.6 per cent; non-whites, 9.2 per cent; non-farm laborers, 9 per cent; and bachelors (of all things), 8.8 per cent
But farmers? Nearly 100 per cent employed, thank you! And, considering the backlog of jobs they have to do and the limited time and number of hands available, many farmers we know might logically be classified as 200 per cent or more employed. Now if farmers could just figure out some way to make all this work pay off, they’d really have it made. Work? Plenty of it. Take home pay? Folks in town probably wouldn’t believe it if they were told.
(Reprinted from Drovers Jour.)
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