Overdoses - leading cause of injury death in the United States

Well of course "delivering full employment" is more difficult when you add more people.
(Depending on what you definition of "delivering" is)

 

Full employment has always been a key goal for social justice (and minimising social ills). We just have to factor in 'quality jobs' too, given neoliberalism has led to increased working poverty threat

 

4% unemployment has been a long standing definition of full employment. We are basically there, so your point is?

Interesting how you paint overdoses as injury deaths, seems more like suicide to me.

 

Its like you've been specially created to help me! Full employment cannot be measured through unemployment. It has to take into account, in right wing chatter, human capital. It has to ensure quality opportunity, else what's the point?

 

Full employment, or the natural rate of unemployment, is considered to be consistent with a level of unemployment that predominantly comprises voluntarily unemployed workers. In other words, those members of the labor force who really want a job have one. Leaving the nuances of who is part of the labor force for the main text, the rate of unemployment consistent with full employment is a major issue for economic policymakers. Small differences in the perceived rate of full employment lead to significant variations in the policy response to economic growth.

To understand the relationship between full employment and wage increases, let us assume that the agreed upon natural unemployment rate is 5%. If the unemployment rate is 8%, then there are workers who desire jobs but cannot obtain one (known as involuntary unemployment). With high unemployment rates, the existing labor surplus implies that employers have little trouble finding people to work at the prevailing wage. But as economic growth accelerates, the labor surplus diminishes as more workers are hired, and the unemployment rate falls. Finally, due to strong economic growth, the unemployment rate falls to a level consistent with full employment.

https://www.colorado.edu/Economics/courses/econ2020/section5/full-employment.html

Gee, the rest of us undertand it, why do you have issues?

 

You goggle very poorly! Makes me laugh mind you. Full employment has to refer also to human capital, else we have underemployment. It is easy to increase employment with crap jobs. Such jobs will, at best, maintain social ills. It isn't a celebratory outcome.