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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-07-11 03:13 PM
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1. And even if you've given up and are no longer looking...
If you're out of work, you're unemployed.

These people need to be counted too...
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  -You know . . . . the real unemployment rate is still well above 20% Stinky The Clown  Apr-07-11 03:11 PM   #0 
  - And even if you've given up and are no longer looking...  CaliforniaPeggy   Apr-07-11 03:13 PM   #1 
  - And even if you've been unemployed for years and still are looking...you're unemployed.  Vincardog   Apr-07-11 03:16 PM   #3 
  - I totally agree. You may well have stopped looking. That doesn't mean you don't want a job.  Stinky The Clown   Apr-07-11 03:24 PM   #5 
  - I got dropped from the account in December...  sfwriter   Apr-07-11 03:14 PM   #2 
  - I see the purpose of having multiple unemployment rates...  IndyPragmatist   Apr-07-11 03:22 PM   #4 
  - Or, better yet, they would cite the TOP number.  Stinky The Clown   Apr-07-11 03:25 PM   #6 
     - But the lie about the "top number" has been used forever.  tridim   Apr-07-11 03:39 PM   #10 
        - Good lord. That's quite some objection.  Stinky The Clown   Apr-07-11 04:06 PM   #13 
           - I just stated that it is unfair. You did too.  tridim   Apr-07-11 04:23 PM   #17 
  - Yep... I agree  ixion   Apr-07-11 03:27 PM   #7 
  - CORRECT  Skittles   Apr-07-11 03:30 PM   #8 
  - +1 n/t  Life Long Liberal   Apr-07-11 03:35 PM   #9 
  - Combine THAT number with the number of Americans...  bvar22   Apr-07-11 03:55 PM   #11 
  - if you have given up your search for a job, you have exited the labor market  BOG PERSON   Apr-07-11 04:05 PM   #12 
     - Giving up the search does not mean you don't want a job.  Stinky The Clown   Apr-07-11 04:07 PM   #14 
        - i just don't think you should fault the BLS for not being mind-readers  BOG PERSON   Apr-07-11 04:09 PM   #15 
           - I fault whoever tells the BLS how to promulgate the numbers  Stinky The Clown   Apr-07-11 04:12 PM   #16 
 

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