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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (438593)	8/5/2003 9:27:06 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 769667

If someone does not have a job but can no longer receive or is not allowed to receive unemployment, is that person then counted as employed? Prison population in the US is over 2 mil US population is 290 mil. That's 0.6% If the govt. released unemployment figures next month showing a 0.6% increase, how many analysts, commentators or just about anybody would characterize that as "very few people"? Of course a prisoner shouldn't be counted as an official unemployed person but it's a reality that nearly all prisoners will eventually be released...unemployed.