It's also a way for Obama to claim he created jobs.
The feds consider a person employed even if he or she only works one hour a week.
If a company takes one full time job and alters schedules so it becomes two part time jobs that will increase federal employment numbers by one and will remove one person from the unemployment numbers.
exactly. which is why I pointed out that the 40 hour work week was created during the great depression for that very same reason (as was the whole concept of retirement, and for the exact same reason, to lower the unemployment numbers)
This is why some of here have been pounding the table since GWB’s 2nd term that U-6 is the real unemployment number, not the “headline” U-3 number. U-6 counts this kind of “underemployed” worker, and has been well above 8% for well over a decade.