“I believe there’s a lot of movement from real jobs to “McJobs”. Of course McJobs is never mentioned in the MSM these days, only under Bush.”
Not quite true...remember a few years back when McDonalds announced they were hiring 50,000 people? The MSM was practically orgasmic about how awesome the Obama Economy was in creating all those jobs (which were not referred to as McJobs, go figure).
Yes, in the Era of Baraq, fast food employment is the new “middle class aspiration”
In a nutshell, here’s how the BLS is counting the unemployed:
QUESTION: Are you employed?
Answer: No
QUESTION: Are you actively looking for a job?
Answer Yes.
Questioner counts the interviewee as among the unemployed.
Next....
QUESTION: Are you employed?
Answer: No
QUESTION: Are you actively looking for a job?
Answer No.
Questioner puts the interviewee in a different category and BLS DOES NOT include him in the official unemployment rate.
Regardless of what it is, if you don’t have a job, you don’t have a job, whether the BLS counts you or not.