To: Resolute Conservative
“Many have given up” ... is a myth. They simply ran out of unemployment benefits and are no longer counted as unemployed even though they are. But most have NOT given up.
9 posted on
02/07/2014 12:16:08 PM PST by
clamper1797
(Evil WILL flourish when good men WILL not act)
To: clamper1797
To: clamper1797
But most have NOT given up.How do you know?
40 posted on
02/07/2014 1:43:47 PM PST by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: clamper1797
They simply ran out of unemployment benefits and are no longer counted as unemployed even though they are.That is not how people are counted as unemployed.
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#unemployed
43 posted on
02/07/2014 1:49:35 PM PST by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: clamper1797
Yes. That always gets me.
How do you give up looking for a job? I mean, does one decide to live in boxes and give up eating instead?
To: clamper1797
Yep. Anyone who doesn’t continue to check in with the state Employment Development Department (here in CA anyway) after their unemployment runs out is counted as not looking anymore. Why would they?
50 posted on
02/07/2014 2:42:28 PM PST by
Hugin
To: clamper1797
I know guys who have gone off the grid. They work for cash, netting more money than when they were employed. I can only guess about their taxes.
52 posted on
02/07/2014 2:46:52 PM PST by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is)
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