Economics Info » Economics http://www.economicsinfo.com Economic News, Discussion and More Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Longer Unemployment Equals Worse Re-employment: Increasingly Desperate Job-Seekers Are Taking Jobs They Don’t Like, Don’t Want, And Are Too Qualified For http://www.economicsinfo.com/economics/2010/07/26/longer-unemployment-equals-worse-re-employment-increasingly-desperate-job-seekers-are-taking-jobs-they-dont-like-dont-want-and-are-too-qualified-for/ http://www.economicsinfo.com/economics/2010/07/26/longer-unemployment-equals-worse-re-employment-increasingly-desperate-job-seekers-are-taking-jobs-they-dont-like-dont-want-and-are-too-qualified-for/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:52 +0000 admin http://www.economicsinfo.com/economics/2010/07/26/longer-unemployment-equals-worse-re-employment-increasingly-desperate-job-seekers-are-taking-jobs-they-dont-like-dont-want-and-are-too-qualified-for/ Source

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Did it have to do with the number of tax payers paying into the US tax system or the GDP? I am really curious as to why the tax rates were that high in the middle half of the 1900s.

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