chikenwing
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As the employment begins to pick up, more discouraged workers will report BLS that they are no longer discouraged workers, and then be counted as unemployed.
Haven't looked at the various unemplyment stats to see if that theory is supported by the numbers, but that is my understanding of how we can see an increase in jobs, while not decrease in unemployment.
Prime example of what you can do with numbers on a piece of paper,the fact remains,there are millions of people out of work,so what if they are discouraged and some how have fallen of the LIST they are still unemployed,and most likely getting help along the way,so its a double wammy,they cost more for everyone else to help them and are not putting back into the system through taxes.
Who would you believe??? DC or the guy trying to buy food??
So what, you ask? That's actually a damned fine question and thank you for asking.
Unemployment numbers are based on SURVEYS and based on what people REPORT to BLS.
So if people formerly decribing themselves as not working and also NOT LOOKING FOR WORK, that number was reflected in a different unemployment statistic than the one that is normally reported by the MSM.
Conversely, if large numbers of those people who formerly reported that they were discouraged workers, but now that they're looking for work again, then they fall into another catagory than they had been and that is reflected in the unemplyment number that the MSM typically tells us about.
Its a tad confusing to decribe in text, I know, but there are more than ONE unemplyment number publishing by BLS. There are THREE numbers reported by the BLS, not one.
And discouraged workers are only reported as being unemployed on some of those BLS published numbers.
The problem isn't with the statistics of the BLS, the problem is that you are only reading ONE of their stats because the MSM is fucking too stupid or lazy (take your pick) to report ALL the numbers.
I agree,basically the point I was attempting to make,and to add its not just the MSM .
walk down main street talk to people the truth rises to the top.We have lots to do befor we are back in any kind of shape.