Welfare not counted unemployed

[couch protester]

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   But the 109,631,000 living in households taking federal welfare benefits as of the end of 2012, according to the Census Bureau, equaled 35.4 percent of all 309,467,000 people living in the United States at that time.Sep 9, 2015
   
   Percentage of Americans Now on Welfare Paints a ...
   economyincrisis.org/.../percentage-of-americans-now-on-welfare-paints-a-d...
   

Obviously the government doesn't count these welfare recipients as unemployed if they are only working temporarily 8 hours a week at a Temporary Staffing agency on poverty level. Librats want so bad to believe their hero JObama. His supporters only care about job numbers victory but not the 100 million on poverty.

And how many are of those illegals and still working minimum wage? Cheap labor. The Americans who can no longer qualify for unemployment benefits don't count in the statistics. The government leaves the homeless out as well as illegals. The government neglect to mention entrepreneurs working from home and retired people who have been released from their job position but still need extra income beyond SSI.

Where do the statistics come from?
Early each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor. This does not include the people who don't file unemployment at Dept of Labor

 

[couch protester]

...thanks Obama for leaving us with your tab of 8 trillion dollar debt spent and high welfare but you made it all right with the employment numbers, all forgiven, holy shit amazed about this. Raised the debt higher than Bush. It's contained.

National Debt has increased more under Obama than under ...
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Debt Under Obama Up $8,000,000,000,000 - CNS News
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[pinqy]

1. 
   But the 109,631,000 living in households taking federal welfare benefits as of the end of 2012, according to the Census Bureau, equaled 35.4 percent of all 309,467,000 people living in the United States at that time.Sep 9, 2015
   
   Percentage of Americans Now on Welfare Paints a ...
   economyincrisis.org/.../percentage-of-americans-now-on-welfare-paints-a-d...

Obviously the government doesn't count these welfare recipients as unemployed if they are only working temporarily 8 hours a week at a Temporary Staffing agency on poverty level. Librats want so bad to believe their hero JObama. His supporters only care about job numbers victory but not the 100 million on poverty.

The Unemployment rate is not and is not meant to be a measure of poverty. It's a measure of labor resources. Why do you want to count someone who has a job as unemployed?

And how many are of those illegals and still working minimum wage? Cheap labor.

No questions on immigration status are asked.

The Americans who can no longer qualify for unemployment benefits don't count in the statistics.

That is not true. The basis of the unemployment rate, the Current Population Survey, doesn't even ask about unemployment benefits. The criteria are: not working....looking for work...available to start work. That's it.

The government leaves the homeless out as well as illegals.

Only because there's no good way to count them.

The government neglect to mention entrepreneurs working from home and retired people who have been released from their job position but still need extra income beyond SSI.

entrepreneurs are generally considered employed, and retired people are unemployed if not working but looking for work, and employed if they have a post-retirement job.

[qutoe]Where do the statistics come from?
Early each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor. This does not include the people who don't file unemployment at Dept of Labor[/quote] Yes, it does.

 

[NYcarbineer]

They count people with fulltime jobs in those numbers, genius.

 

[OldLady]

I was trying to do a little research into welfare statistics last week, and I found that the 109,000,000 on welfare apparently includes Social Security benefits, as well--or some other unusual way of counting--that we don't usually associate with "welfare." That was not what I was looking for--I was looking for the major benefits we usually think of like TANF, Medicaid, housing assistance and Food Stamps. If you use the 109,000,000 number, it means 43,600,000 blacks are on welfare. There aren't that many blacks in the United States.
So not to disagree with your argument, just be careful using some of these statistics. They aren't always describing exactly what you think they are.

 

[couch protester]

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The Americans who can no longer qualify for unemployment benefits don't count in the statistics.

That is not true. The basis of the unemployment rate, the Current Population Survey, doesn't even ask about unemployment benefits. The criteria are: not working....looking for work...available to start work. That's it.

The government leaves the homeless out as well as illegals.

Only because there's no good way to count them.

The government neglect to mention entrepreneurs working from home and retired people who have been released from their job position but still need extra income beyond SSI.

entrepreneurs are generally considered employed, and retired people are unemployed if not working but looking for work, and employed if they have a post-retirement job.

[qutoe]Where do the statistics come from?
Early each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor. This does not include the people who don't file unemployment at Dept of Labor

Yes, it does.[/QUOTE]

You're right, its contained.

 

[Hossfly]

They count people with fulltime jobs in those numbers, genius.