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Originally Posted by smooth
Our unemployment is figured on random polling via household surveys--not unemployment recipients.
To be considered as "unemployed" one needs to be "actively seeking work." So if one quits looking for work after two weeks, one is no longer unemployed, even if that person is pulling benefits.
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I thought you get cash if you claim you are still looking for work when you are on UI, and don't if you don't claim you are looking for work.
Don't UI programs in the USA require that you be looking for work?
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Originally Posted by smooth
The employment rate only counts the "civilian workforce." So no government workers or military are in that count. Marginally attached workers (people who want to work full-time, but can't because their company won't let them), seasonal workers, and people below the poverty line also don't show up in the unemployment count.
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Really, if you called someone and they said they had a job working for the government, they wouldn't be counted as employed or unemployed?
Wouldn't that make outsourcing of government work a zero-sum artificial way to decrease unemployment? (only slightly -- adding 1 employed person without taking away an unemployed person would decrease the % of unemployed)
I really doubt that this is true. . . Even the poverty line thing.
Oh yes, and as an aside: "Poverty" as is reported in the popular press in the USA is a relative-income measure, calling it poverty is a misnomer. If someone gets richer, it can cause other people to suddenly become poor.