Will medical school ever get less oversaturated with applicants?

[masaraksh]

^ 8 unit property for 375k? What state, may I ask? Sounds really low.

Anyway, I see your point:

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[Mad Jack]

^ 8 unit property for 375k? What state, may I ask? Sounds really low.

Anyway, I see your point:

Don't want to say, there's already too much info about who I am on SDN. I will say it's in the Northeast though. The units must be quite small, as the rent is around 600/month per unit, probably with a little more added on for heat+hot water.

 

[mrh125]

I agree that we are in a sort of economic recovery (albeit, a slow one) but we aren't hitting the rate of job growth needed. 288k jobs for the last month is the highest number of jobs added in the last year, but just to account for growing participation in job market and population growth, we need to add at least 100k-200k jobs per month just to keep the unemployment rate at the same level.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2...adding-each-month/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

So it is economic growth, but we've also been shedding government jobs for the last year, which used to make up a big bulk of hiring during the early days of the recession when the private sector was losing their jobs. Besides that, a huge bulk of the new jobs being created are made up of low wages as the NELP has published here:
http://www.nelp.org/page/-/Reports/...stry-Employment-Wages-2014-Report.pdf?nocdn=1

And the main news story that @mrh125 meant was that the unemployment rate going down isn't all good news and could be mostly bad since as @chenzt has said, it's mostly due to the participation rate going down. Once people see the economy picking up, they would enter the job market and the unemployment rate would increase (or maybe they just stay out altogether). The rate doesn't include underemployed, people working part time or people currently in school.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/02/investing/april-jobs-report/index.html?iid=s_mpm

So I'm going to have to disagree that the economy is continuing to add jobs at a good pace since it is a really anemic recovery. A lot of high paying jobs are lost and possibly never coming back and a large percentage of jobs being added isn't something we should be striving for.

good post that's I was thinking of. Thanks for explaining that.

 

[Beargryllz]

Down economy

And the correct choice is.....?