One of my pet peeves ... saying that those who ran out of unemployment benefits have “given up”. BS ... they simply ran out of benefits, and consequentially are no longer counted as “unemployed”. In fact, most are still looking for employment. But thanks to Zero and his communist policies ... there are scant jobs to be had out there.
It’s a weird system, clamper. I remember back in about 1974 I collected unemployment for a couple months. I had to report to the UE office each month the places I had looked for work. I think it was a requirement for me to look in at least 3 places.
That was a long time ago, but I imagine everyone now saying to them, “I didn’t look anyplace this month.” gets dropped from the rolls for that month’s report.
Wrong. The unemployment insurance rolls and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' household survey are completely different counts.
You can be on unemployment but not count as unemployed according to the BLS. For example if you are in some approved training program and can't take a job immediately because you are in class, you could get unemployment payments but be out of the labor force according to the BLS.
You could be looking for a job and thus count as unemployed according to the BLS, but not be eligible for unemployment insurance. For example, you could have run out of benefits, just be out of school, be the owner of a failed company (and thus not get UI payments), have quit voluntarily or have been fired with cause.
The only linkage is that in most cases you have to be looking for a job to continue to get unemployment insurance payments, but I don't know how close they check anymore.
To be in the labor force according to the BLS, you have to have a job or have actively looked for one in the last four weeks. That means you have sent out a single resume, called a single employer or posted on a job placement site. Just looking at classifieds or on job sites isn't enough.