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To: laura_bush who wrote (273309)	1/10/2004 1:08:38 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 436258

I wasn't aware that merely having a desire to work produced income. It doesn't. What "having a desire for work" does in conjunction with not having a job is put you among the ranks of the officially unemployed according to the BLS. They don't simply count those people not working to arrive at the official unemployment figure. You have to be able to work, willing to work, actually looking for a job and not currently working to be considered part of the work force which is unemployed. If you don't meet the criteria of being willing, able and looking then you aren't considered in the work force, therefore you aren't considered unemployed. The unemployment rate is the percentage of those people in the work force who are out of work. It doesn't include those considered "out of the work force".