There are several problems with ommission of facts in the article.
1. It ignores the survey of the self employed.
2. It ignores that people can collect and then become retired to collect SS.
3. Everybody knows how anti-us brazil is.
I fully agree with you though, the US is in...
"The United States has a major crisis related to the creation of jobs, and at the same time today the major American export item to China is good paying American jobs."
If the US has a major crisis how do you compare our 5.3% to
Germany- 12%
France- 11%
and your beloved brazil 10%...
Probably will get worse when you add in that volatility is nearing non existance.
Should be interesting to see what the VIX does today, maybe hit an all time low.
Probably a good summer to take a long vacation.