Digital BW, The Print

I wish I could cite sources, didn't think I would need to remember them at 
the time I was reading. But I have read that currently we have a greater number 
of those who have fallen off the official unemployment rolls. More people who 
have been unemployed long enough to have exhausted their benefits, even those 
who have grabbed part time work because they couldn't find permanent. No, 
those part time workers in those cases aren't unemployed but they would be in the 
full time workforce if the jobs were available. The articles I read mentioned 
some other factors too that "hid" some people from the formal statistics. I 
just thought it was interesting that the published unemployment rate didn't tell 
the whole story.

Not to be argumentative, but perhaps "out of your mind" is a little strong?

A commercial freelance photographer whose market dries up might be out of 
work til the savings are depleted and then take a part time job at Barnes and 
Noble and never make a blip in the unemployment stats.

Karen 

In a message dated 7/29/03 12:33:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
peter@... writes:


> You're out of your mind.  US unemployment now is 6.4% (source BLS) 
> It was 11% % in the 1982 and over 8% on 1993 and 1949 and n9% in 
> 1979.  We've had BOOM periods with higher unemployment that this!



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