Wanna know why unemployment rates dropped?

[Amazed]

(smile) We'll risk it, Bammy jus ain't woikin out.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

You guys should really read your links before you post them.

This is an entirely different survey. It has nothing to do with BLS's "Unemployment" numbers.

 

[Stephanie]

Willard assumes that the uninsured live in apartments. He's so out of touch.

well this post of yours was out of touch with reality..Do you people always HAVE to make up shit?

 

[KissMy]

The BLS has manipulated the numbers for democrats before.

"GOVERNMENT ECONOMIC REPORTS: THINGS YOU'VE SUSPECTED BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK!"

The Clinton administration also reduced monthly household sampling from 60,000 to about 50,000, eliminating significant surveying in the inner cities. Despite claims of corrective statistical adjustments, reported unemployment among people of color declined sharply, and the piggybacked poverty survey showed a remarkable reversal in decades of worsening poverty trends.

Somehow, the Clinton administration successfully set into motion reestablishing the full 60,000 survey for the benefit of the current Bush administration's monthly household survey.

Up until the Clinton administration, a discouraged worker was one who was willing, able and ready to work but had given up looking because there were no jobs to be had. The Clinton administration dismissed to the non-reporting netherworld about five million discouraged workers who had been so categorized for more than a year. As of July 2004, the less-than-a-year discouraged workers total 504,000. Adding in the netherworld takes the unemployment rate up to about 12.5%.

Here is the 2001 Fed document increasing the Household Survey from 50,000 back to 60,000 soon after Bush took office.

Effective with the release of July 2001 data, official labor force estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Current Population Survey (CPS) and Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program reflect the expansion of the monthly CPS sample from about 50,000 to about 60,000 eligible households.

Here is a 1995 BLS document showing that the Household Survey of 60,000 was reduced to 50,000 under Clinton to make him look good.

In January 1996, the CPS sample was reduced from about 60,000 households to approximately 50,000 households.

The BLS/DOL is a Democrat Department. Of course they are bias towards Obama & want him to win re-election.

The Department of Labor is a plank of the Democratic Party & was created by Democrats.

In 1903, the American Federation of Labor persuaded the Democratic Party to adopt a plank in its platform that pledged "the enactment of a law creating a Department of Labor, represented separately in the President's Cabinet." However, since Democrats controlled neither the White House nor Congress, their powers were limited. Democratic Congressmen regularly introduced bills for a separate Department of Labor, but none gained sufficient support to pass. In 1910 the Democrats won control of the House, and 15 union members were elected to Congress. Congressman William B. Wilson, formerly an officer of the United Mine Workers, became chairman of the House Committee on Labor. He championed creating an independent department. Representative William Sulzer of New York introduced a Department of Labor bill in 1912, which passed the House with little opposition. For a time it seemed that the bill might die in the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, but Senator Borah rescued it. The Senate passed the bill without a record being kept of the votes.

The big reason for the huge drop in the number of job losers was this: Obama Administration asks companies to delay layoffs, notices; says government will pay any legal bills.

STRANGE: Jobless Claims Sank to 339,000 in Latest Week, Though Data Didn't Include One Large State

About That Unusually Large Drop in Jobless Claims

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRI84yEqPcw"]Large State Missing from US Weekly Jobless Claim[/ame]