1.4 million people who have exhausted their total 99 weeks of unemployment benefits, the longest in history and now they are no longer counted as unemployed.
Since the number being 1.4 million at once is a large number the UE rate dropped to 6.7 percent.
This should be a GOP argument for not renewing these benefits
that the UE rate is back under 7% and no longer an needed.
After all Obama refused during last years campaign to notice
more people were out of work not less.
Whether or not one collects unemployment insurance has no bearing on how the unemployment rate is calculated.