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The Official U.S Unemployment Rate
If you haven’t actively searched for work in the last 4 weeks (maybe you’ve been in school or maybe you’ve been looking online but haven’t applied for a job yet) you don’t count as Unemployed according to the official definition. You don’t get counted as employed, obviously, either. You actually don’t get counted at all.
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Unemployement Rate: The Real Facts
- 2.5 million people are getting back to work after 5 weeks of job searching
- 2 million people are finding a job within 5–14 weeks of looking for a job
- 1.5 million people are out of work for longer than 7 months
- 1 million people find a job between 3 and ...
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Labor Force Participation Rate
The labor force participation rate defines the “labor force” as everyone eligible to work. Anyone in the labor force who is not employed is unemployed, simple. That's 37% of the population unemployed versus the 3.8% the government has been Blabbing about for months now. The most important initiative...
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The Official Definition Of Unemployed
People are classified as Unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work.
Sometimes a nice-sounding number reported by any agency whether it’s the gover...
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Duration of Unemployment
The Bureau of Labor Statistics breaks these time periods into 4 groups:
- less than 5 weeks
- 5 weeks — 2 months (14 weeks)
- 3 months (15 weeks) — 6 months (26 weeks)
- 7 months (27 weeks) +
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