[OldMissileer]

When you don’t count people who can’t find work and give up, you can make the rate about as low as you want.

The numbers are lies.

Yep. They do not count people who have come to the end of their unemployment as well as all the people who were never elligable for unemployment. Also, many people have given up looking for work.

I know quite a few people who were laid off from their high-five and low-six figure jobs and are now working at stores for $10 per hour. They are considered employed but are in financial distress. Most have already lost their homes.

While they are "employed", they are actually under-employed. They are not counted.

[ichabod1]

I resent their tone when they talk about people who have “given up looking for work”. It is reminiscent of the “jobs American’s won’t deeewww”. What it means is people who have looked for jobs, who KNOW there AREN’T any jobs so they’re not looking, but as soon as they hear about people being hired through the grapevine, they WILL be looking for jobs. And don’t get me started on the people who are working on a cash basis.