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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (31440)1/13/2009 6:42:12 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 

(If, if, if....)

Either part time people were counted as unemployed, or they are not. Either way the boundary between part time and full time isn't relative to the question "Are part time people counted as employed".

As I said before - "Where the dividing line between the two is, isn't very relevant to the issues being discussed - Whether part time people where counted as unemployed, and whether the article said that part time people where counted as unemployed.

Returning to that issue - They definitely are counted as employed now. (Well they are counted the same as the unemployed under U-6, but that's not the headline "unemployment rate", nor an actual count or estimate of people who are unemployed.)

Part time employees are not unemployed by the definition of the word unemployed.

Of course governments have been known to include nonsense in their stats from time to time, but you would think that if they wanted to distort the stats they wouldn't do so in a way that was obviously wrong, and at the same time made the unemployment rate seem higher. But you never know, they could have done such a weird thing, but I've never seen a shred of evidence that they have, and I've looked for it.
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