Comments on: Latest Jobs Numbers Show Unemployment Decrease

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:51:23 +0000

REGARDING:
“Does this include all the part time/seasonal jobs? If so the unemployment rate is much higher because after the holidays these jobs go away.”

This is fully answered at

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#def

As best I can tell the answer is no, unemployment depends only on the number of those seeking employment divided the total labor force.
They have seen patterns over the years which lead to expected rates. They know it goes up and down. Total employment may rise or fall with the season but this may draw people into the labor market or drive them away.

David for discernment

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 09:56:30 +0000

Does this include all the part time/seasonal jobs? If so the unemployment rate is much higher because after the holidays these jobs go away.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 01:28:39 +0000

REGARDING:
“Is this including all the unemployed that has fallen off the grid,, Can no longer draw unemployement ?”

Yes, it includes all who are not employed but would like to be. It doesn’t matter if they have benefits or not in the calculations. It doesn’t include those who are employed but would like to have better employment.

AND
“There is no jobs here I do not care what any one says ,, This is the deadest area I have ever saw”

Are, seen. And yet all around us, there are people who are working.

David for better vision, better lives

By: bama

bama — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 12:47:54 +0000

Is this including all the unemployed that has fallen off the grid,, Can no longer draw unemployement ?, There is no jobs here I do not care what any one says ,, This is the deadest area I have ever saw ,,I wonder how many have packed up and moved to another state to look or get a job