couple of things: one, the employment rate has been redefined by our government to the point of uselessness, who gets counted and who doesn't is a sham, and does not account for the underemployed (the 'classic case' of the engineering degree holder working at a deli or wherever) two, 'good for business' is absolutely not necessarily good for society and the sooner we get out of the mindset that business and 'the economy' are the primary indicators of what's good for people the better off everyone will be - except oligarchs I guess