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The numbers do not show you the whole truth, PP. They cover only people who have filed claims and whose benefits have not expired.
For the billionth time, the Unemployment rate has NEVER been based on Unemployment insurance. It's not asked in the survey and never has been. I don't get how you could make that post when you've clearly never actually researched it yourself. Where on earth did you get the idea that the Unemployment rate had anything to do with Unemployment benefits?
The official definitions from The Bureau of Labor Statistics(bolding is mine)People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following criteria: They had no employment during the reference week; they were available for work at that time; and they made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the eligibilityfor or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits.
If you remove the "l" from bls you get what the BLS has to say.
They use a bunch of double talk and feel-good rhetoric to cover the few sentences in there that explain how they figure the numbers.
PPL who aren't looking for work are counted as "not in the labor pool". Welfare mothers are not in the welfare pool. People who work odd jobs part time are considered "employed".
Whether you deny the BLS data or not in this manner...
It is true that they have gotten their data the same way for decades, so for the reason of comparison to other presidencies, like Reagan's, it is accurate.