5.4 Million say they want a job because they are currently receiving unemployment benefits that require them to certify to the government, every other week, that they are looking for a job. The day the unemployment runs out is the day they stop certifying, and is the day they drop out of the 5.4 million.
So the number of people looking for a job is somewhere between 5.4 million and 94 million. The exact number is a figure the government works very hard to obscure. One thing for sure, it is a helluva lot more than 5.4 million.
Let's not make up yet more numbers here, that's how we got into this mess. There are lots of good hard numbers we could be using, like by taking the population of the U.S. minus payroll employment we can say factually that there are over a hundred million Americans not employed.
If what CNBC quoted was correct then Trump screwed up when he said they were all "looking for a job".
What’s more, it’s closer to 94 than 5.4.
So the number of people looking for a job is somewhere between 5.4 million and 94 million. The exact number is a figure the government works very hard to obscure. One thing for sure, it is a helluva lot more than 5.4 million.
Well said Haiku Guy, well said.
Perhaps this misleading description of unemployed/looking for a job will be changed. It should be called the number collecting unemployment benefits. There are so many types of fake news coming from the MoP (Ministry of Propagands, formerly MSM) and Washington DC.