Unemployment rates are severely under tracked.

[SamuelRSmith]

superchunk said:

TheRealMafoo said:

superchunk said:

Tanstalas said:

 

If you don't include them then they are counted as EMPLOYED

Do you not understand what I am saying?

No, you just remove those numbers from the equation, just like elderly, children, handicapped to the point of incapable of working, etc. So instead of there being 300million people total there is 250million ... etc. Basically you don't count them at all.

I am fine with that, if you still counted those on  government assistance.

So someone unwilling to work but on welfare or unemployment, is unemployed.

I can't for the life of me understand how someone can not be counted as "unemployed", but still get an unemployment check.

Not to be rude, but who cares if you're fine with it, you're leaving.

Issues with Government statistic manipulation (including this unemployment debate) goes far beyond the USA. The whole employed-not employed measurements are almost identical to the UK, for example. Am  I not allowed to participate because I'm not from the USA (well, I'm actually there right now, but, you know what I mean)?