By law people have to report their incomes and the Tax revenue shows both the number of people working and how much money they are making....
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People don’t obey laws anymore. They cheat, defraud, manipulate anything they can. There is a growing underground work force that doesn’t pay taxes. People are bartering for things and using unlicensed services. Young families are getting divorced so that one of the parents can claim all the freebies...the “family” is still living together. As numbers appear to be looking better, they’re actually doubly worse.
No doubt everything you said is true. In a past job I knew someone who bounced from Temp work to Unemployment, all while having a side business. (and collecting freebee’s). Disgusting.
Still the law is the law and that does make it more accurate than the bogus unemployment rate.
Virtually all States have having budget problems in this Wonderful economy.
This is exactly what happened in the old Soviet Union and for the same reasons. Government...Government...Government. God save the Republic!