pinqy
Gold Member
Let me ask you this. Say you look your job (and I am giving you the benefit of the doubt, because I don't think your work)? Then you search and search, run out your unemployment, at that point or shortly thereafter you still haven't found a job. At that point the GOVERNMENT watchdogs say you have been looking too long now your considered a NON-LOOKER and not classified as unemployed! Since you looked so long we will essentially put you in the employed side!
Absolutely untrue. Every month 60,000 households are surveyed and asked about their work and job-hunting. Those who say they worked are classified as Employed. Those who say they didn't work but looked for work in the last 4 weeks are classified as Unemployed. Those who say they didn't work and didn't look for work are classified as Not in the Labor Force. That's about it. It's all based on Respondent answers. It doesn't matter how long someone's been unemployed..if they're still looking, they're still unemployed.
Benefits of course have nothing to do with it and they're not asked about in the survey.