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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (671684)	2/8/2005 9:20:56 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Number one, I believe the only hard census data is collected every 10 years. Yearly counts by the Census Bureau are called estimates. re: "My main point, of course was still presented in the hard Census data" Number two, this is what the BLS says about how they count the unemployed who have exausted unemployment benefits ..."The number of long-term unemployed--those unemployed 27 weeks and over--was about unchanged over the month. This group accounted for 20.9 percent of the unemployed." "People not in the Labor Force - There were 1.8 million persons who were marginally attached to the labor force in January, about unchanged from a year earlier. These individuals wanted and were available to work and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed, however, because they did not actively search for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey..." re: "BOTH" But your main point is correct. The number of people in the United States who are employed amounts to a little over 140 million people, which is less than growth (in the working age population). Which is why the unemployment rate is higher today than January 2001.