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To: TheRhinelander
The one thing the current unemployment numbers do not account for is people retiring.

There are dozens of factors that they don't account for. Not a single person just attaining workforce age is considered to be unemployed. People who have gone from being an engineer to flipping burgers are considered fully employed. People that have ceased collecting unemployment are not considered to be unemployed. Women that would have gone back to work when their kids left home are not considered to be unemployed. People who have gone on disability (in record numbers) are not counted as unemployed.

Meanwhile, people who were working a single full time job, but are now working two part time jobs are being counted as two employed workers.

34 posted on 05/07/2013 7:24:51 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

That entire post is incorrect.

Any householder over 15 is questioned on their employment status. The only thing that disqualifies them from being considered ‘unemployed’ is answering that they do NOT WANT TO WORK.

And two jobs doesn’t count as two people employed if tied to the same person.


96 posted on 05/07/2013 11:24:16 AM PDT by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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