No, the 870,000 went out the back door. They have exhausted their benefits so the Govt stopped counting them in the Unemployment number. The simply reduced the over all number to improve the unemployment rate.
133,561,000 workers Jan 2009
133,500,000(P) workers Sept 2012
Total Non Farm Payroll Seasonal Adjusted
Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet?request_action=wh&graph_name=CE_cesbref1
I dont think so, look at the BLS and compare Aug to Sept.
In Aug there was 154.645mil in the workforce, 142.101mil Employed and 12.544mil unemployed.
In Sept, there was 155.063mil in the workforce,142.974mil Employed and 12.008 unemployed.
The pnumber of EMPLOYED people went up by 874k from Aug to Sept, but only 114k was nonfarm...AND the overall workforce grew by over 400k... that cancels the people who dropped out.
If you look at the last reports from bls for, aug & Sept the overall workforce grew by over 400k, the non farm job increase was 114k month to month, yet the number of unemployed shark by close to 900k. So even if 1/2 million dropped out, the overall trend was for a higher % unemployment... If not for the huge spike in household jobs... Where did the come from? They are not payroll jobs so what are they? Did Avon just recruit 800k+ Tupperware sales people?