Do people on welfare count as unemployed? I don’t believe they are and wonder what the “true” unemployment rate would be if the numbers were accurately reported and compared to historic rates before the “War on Poverty” travesty.
There are also people who are on disability who in decades past would have been unemployed- I know people who are not really sick, but somehow get disability because of what I consider to be just attitude/emotional problems. Though to be fair, I have seen this personally over the last 20+ years. Obama is not the first to play with the numbers, but he appears to be the worst.
If they have never been employed can they be counted as unemployed?