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To: SoFloFreeper

Let me see if I understand this. If everyone stopped looking for work and dropped out of the calculation than we would see a 0% unemployment figure? Some one help me out here.


61 posted on 10/05/2012 5:48:00 AM PDT by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: duckman
Some one help me out here.

If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.

64 posted on 10/05/2012 5:50:32 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: duckman
But the government said the total number of jobs employed surged by 873,000, the highest one-month jump in 29 years.

BS!
65 posted on 10/05/2012 5:51:02 AM PDT by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else)
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To: duckman

According to the report, the employment participation rate (num of people working) stayed the same from last month.

But you are right, the way it works, if all adults stop working and don’t look for a new job, except 1 person, it’d be 100% employment and 0% unemployment.


68 posted on 10/05/2012 5:52:52 AM PDT by Betis70 ("Leading from Behind" gets your Ambassador killed)
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To: duckman

If everyone stopped looking for work and dropped out of the calculation than we would see a 0% unemployment figure?..Of course. It’s the math...arithmetic.


93 posted on 10/05/2012 6:07:05 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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