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US unemployment lowest in 4 years

Obama is turning the entire country into Detroit

On purpose
 

So why is BLS lying about that when they say: "The unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits."???? Employment Situation Technical Note

And your own link exposes your false statement:
Unemployed people typically fall into one of four classifications. Job losers are people who have been laid off or fired, either temporarily or permanently. On the other hand, job leavers are people who have voluntarily left their jobs, and the size of this group may actually reflect confidence in the state of the economy. New entrants are people seeking employment for the first time. And finally, re-entrants are people who left the labor force for a time and are now returning, such as parents who opted to raise families or those who left to pursue additional education.
Are you seriously going to argue that job leavers, new entrants and reentrants are all recieving UI benefits?
 
for what possible reason?

Who is easier to control?

Disarmed, ragged, uneducated poor people or an educated and armed citizenry? The Government under Obama already knows everything about you. They even track and monitor your Facebook chats. This is not science fiction. It's happening right now. Why people like you continue to shill for this obvious fraud in the WH remains a mystery.

Detroit's destruction was planned and purposeful. That's how the Democrats get votes. That's why they want immigration reform so bad. They buy the peasant vote with false promises of utopias, but in reality they are bunch of gangsters robbing you blind.
 
An unemployed person is one who is physically and mentally able to work, but currently does not have a job. "looking" or "not looking" has no bearing.

So, retirees, full time students, stay home spouses, are all unemployed? And how exactly would you measure if someone was physically and mentally able to work? That's pretty much impossible to measure as it's extremely subjective.

And what's the point or use of your definition? The UE rate is supposed to measure the labor market...how hard or easy it is to get a job. By including millions of people who don't want to work, you'd make it impossible to figure that out.
 
Who is easier to control?

Disarmed, ragged, uneducated poor people or an educated and armed citizenry? The Government under Obama already knows everything about you. They even track and monitor your Facebook chats. This is not science fiction. It's happening right now. Why people like you continue to shill for this obvious fraud in the WH remains a mystery.

Detroit's destruction was planned and purposeful. That's how the Democrats get votes. That's why they want immigration reform so bad. They buy the peasant vote with false promises of utopias, but in reality they are bunch of gangsters robbing you blind.

do you have proof of the motivation behind doing this.
 
That number of "new" jobs sounds wonderful until you consider that over 336,000 people in the US turned 18 in that month.

How many people turn 18 each year in US

That was a weird argument. Do you think that nobody under the age of 18 works? Is there some sort of requirement that people have to start working at the age of 18 of which I am unaware?
 
Who is easier to control?

Disarmed, ragged, uneducated poor people or an educated and armed citizenry? The Government under Obama already knows everything about you. They even track and monitor your Facebook chats. This is not science fiction. It's happening right now. Why people like you continue to shill for this obvious fraud in the WH remains a mystery.

Detroit's destruction was planned and purposeful. That's how the Democrats get votes. That's why they want immigration reform so bad. They buy the peasant vote with false promises of utopias, but in reality they are bunch of gangsters robbing you blind.

You sound like an erudite scholar. Do you own a gun?
 
so is this unemployment formula new or did previous adminstrations use these figures also?
 
so is this unemployment formula new or did previous adminstrations use these figures also?

It's been essentially unchanged since the 1940's. Defintions were changed and clarified in 1967, and then big revision in the survey in 1994, but one minor change in definition (concetning people hired but had not started working yet).
 
BBC News - US employment up by 162,000 in July



The US economy added 162,000 new jobs in July.

This was below economists' expectations of more than 180,000 and the government also cut its previous estimates for hiring in May and June.

Nonetheless, the new jobs helped the unemployment rate to fall to 7.4%.





overall positive for the US economy hopefully this is a sign of recovery worldwide.

Though it is good news to an extent, information like that is always misleading since those that have given up looking for work are no longer counted as unemployed. Underemployment and temporary layoffs are not counted either. But, I certainly hope it is a sign of change.
 
BBC News - US employment up by 162,000 in July



The US economy added 162,000 new jobs in July.

This was below economists' expectations of more than 180,000 and the government also cut its previous estimates for hiring in May and June.

Nonetheless, the new jobs helped the unemployment rate to fall to 7.4%.





overall positive for the US economy hopefully this is a sign of recovery worldwide.

While this sounds good, many of those jobs have been replaced by low wage ones and part time positions. Not really a good trend.

How the recession turned middle-class jobs into low-wage jobs

How the recession turned middle-class jobs into low-wage jobs
 
Though it is good news to an extent, information like that is always misleading since those that have given up looking for work are no longer counted as unemployed.
And why whould they be? How likely are they to get a job? They might start looking again, which is why they're tracked, but someone who has "given up" looking has no more effect on the labor market than anyone else not trying to work.

Underemployment and temporary layoffs are not counted either. But, I certainly hope it is a sign of change.
"underemployed" are, by definition, employed. One cannot be both employed and unemployed. And temporary layoffs are certainly classified as unemployed. And those on temp unemployment do not have to have looked for work. Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment 1.2 million unemployed on temporary layoff.
 
And why whould they be? How likely are they to get a job? They might start looking again, which is why they're tracked, but someone who has "given up" looking has no more effect on the labor market than anyone else not trying to work.


"underemployed" are, by definition, employed. One cannot be both employed and unemployed. And temporary layoffs are certainly classified as unemployed. And those on temp unemployment do not have to have looked for work. Table A-11. Unemployed persons by reason for unemployment 1.2 million unemployed on temporary layoff.

My point is simply that it is misleading as to the political connotations the unemployment report is used to purport. I am not disputing anything. It wasn't really an opportunity to jump into a debate.
 
My point is simply that it is misleading as to the political connotations the unemployment report is used to purport..
Ah, you do have a point there. It's not that anyone is trying to mislead, but that most people seem ignorant of what the data actually means.
 
do you have proof of the motivation behind doing this.

Look at the state of The Black Family today because of The Democrat Party

It's obvious

Detroit was a Democrat dictatorship for decades. Have you seen the literacy rate in Detroit?

Gee I wonder why

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Ah, you do have a point there. It's not that anyone is trying to mislead, but that most people seem ignorant of what the data actually means.

What does today's data mean in your view?
 
It's been essentially unchanged since the 1940's. Defintions were changed and clarified in 1967, and then big revision in the survey in 1994, but one minor change in definition (concetning people hired but had not started working yet).

im guessing when the GOP are in the whitehouse the left down plays the figures and then when the dems are in the GOP down play the figures?
 
Look at the state of The Black Family today because of The Democrat Party

It's obvious

Detroit was a Democrat dictatorship for decades. Have you seen the literacy rate in Detroit?

Gee I wonder why

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i think you don't understand what the definition of a dictator is.



dic·ta·tor
noun \ˈdik-ˌtā-tər, dik-ˈ\
Definition of DICTATOR
1
a : a person granted absolute emergency power; especially : one appointed by the senate of ancient Rome
b : one holding complete autocratic control
c : one ruling absolutely and often oppressively

Dictator - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

unless the republican party in detroit was prevented from voting, participating in the legeslature or the process of governing, or banned as a political party, i don't understand how you can call democrats dictators because they did not have Absolute power.

unless there is evidence you can provide that can show me otherwise.
 
Which has nothing to do with what we were
talking about. I have no idea why you quoted me to post a non-sequitur.

" Non-sequitur " only because there is a D next to our Presidents name.

Those numbers, or our current job numbers under a Republican president would invoke cries of racism, incompetence and failed policies.

All I ever read from you are justifications. A parsing of definitions.

Personally I think that number is highly relevent.
 
So why is BLS lying about that when they say: "The unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits."???? Employment Situation Technical Note

And your own link exposes your false statement: Are you seriously going to argue that job leavers, new entrants and reentrants are all recieving UI benefits?

You're talking about a poll vs an official formula used by the government to determine the basis of unemployment...

You don't know what you're talking about...
 
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