IIRC, being officially unemployed gets you benefits.
Some folks are good at being professionally unemployed and securing benefits.
Many are genuinely unemployed and not looking for work AND also not taking UE benefits.
One drives stats up, the other down.
Just sayin’
I believe the democrats have proclaimed that unemployment checks are the best thing ever to hit the economy. Unemployment, welfare, foodstamps, ObamaCare, Obama free shit, etc, all great patriotic stuff. These people permanently living on government subsistence are just doing their patriotic duty.