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To: TimF who wrote (31281)	1/9/2009 11:28:33 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Right..... So, it clearly says that PRIOR to LBJ's changes, the concept that we now call "discouraged workers" (those who have been out of work a year or longer) WERE OFFICIALLY counted in the government unemployment statistics... but since the LBJ change they have been dropped from the count. And, it talks about "part time workers", quoting a statement from Robert Schenk, that seems to imply that part time workers should be counted as unemployed. But the article does not explain the relevant details of how and under what conditions people who have SOME work would or would not be counted in the unemployment statistics --- (nor how and when those rules might have changed since the Great Depression). I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure that we have clear RULES that the government uses today. Presumably under some minimum level of 'hours worked' the GVT officially counts a person as unemployed (surely they would not call someone 'employed' who only worked one hour a week, eh?)... and I suppose at some critical level of hours worked they would classify a person as "under-employed"... and at some other critical level of hours worked (say, 20+ a week?) they would classify as "employed". So what we don't know is: 1) what those exact rules are NOW, and 2) what they were BACK THEN. But we are in agreement about the "discouraged worker" change that happened in the LBJ period.