To: Trust but Verify
Here is how they should come up with the numbers:
Are you self employed?
Are you in school?
Do you have a job?
Let's see, you come up with numbers of self employed, employed and students (both employed and unemployed).
These numbers would be honest numbers. As for the example you pointed out, are they employed? No, thus they are counted as unemployed. Just like they are now.
196 posted on
04/02/2004 7:05:50 AM PST by
looscnnn
("Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils" Gen. John Stark 1809)
To: looscnnn
Housewives are unemployed. Do we count them as unemployed?
201 posted on
04/02/2004 7:18:06 AM PST by
Trust but Verify
(Charter member Broken Glass Republicans (2000))
To: looscnnn
Let's see, you come up with numbers of self employed, employed and students (both employed and unemployed).The BLS has these numbers right here, and all you have to do is check off what you want. The site is down (or v e r y slow) at the moment but when they come back a lot of us will be very interested.
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
(Select from list below)
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- Employment Level - Civilian Labor Force - LNS12000000
- Civilian Labor Force Level - LNS11000000
- Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate - LNS11300000
- Unemployment Level - Civilian Labor Force - LNS13000000
- Unemployment Rate - Civilian Labor Force - LNS14000000
- Civilian Employment-Population Ratio - LNS12300000
My predictions:
-- for the economy-- more people are working now than ever before making more money than ever before.
-- for politics-- the bush-bashers will say the world ended and they'll want to raise my taxes to protect them.
203 posted on
04/02/2004 7:19:23 AM PST by
expat_panama
(GO PAT GO-- and don't come back!)
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