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40 percent of unemployed have quit looking for jobs

Revmitchell

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At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don't have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking.

The revelation, contained in a new survey Wednesday showing how much work needs to be done yet in the U.S. labor market, comes as the labor force participation rate remains mired near 37-year lows.

A tight jobs market, the skills gap between what employers want and what prospective employees have to offer, and a benefits program that, while curtailed from its recession level, still remains obliging have combined to keep workers on the sidelines, according to a Harris poll of 1,553 working-age Americans conducted for Express Employment Professionals.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102694868
 

church mouse guy

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The highest corporate taxes in the world are killing American business and driving it overseas. No one is getting a raise. Meanwhile the US Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable have joined with the Democrats to bring in another 15 million Mexicans at the same time that Obama is acting to keep Cubans in a Stalinist island prison by denying them asylum if the reach our shores.

Obama is gambling that there will be no Judgment Day.
 

Livingnow

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This is a clear indication that the employment report that comes out every month doesn't really reflect the unemployment problem in its entirety. The problem is that once people have stopped looking for job, they're no longer accounted into the group of people that are unemployed.
 

church mouse guy

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This is a clear indication that the employment report that comes out every month doesn't really reflect the unemployment problem in its entirety. The problem is that once people have stopped looking for job, they're no longer accounted into the group of people that are unemployed.

Welcome in! Excellent point! The government probably never has had an accurate count of the number of unemployed since the system began perhaps during the Great Depression.
 

matt wade

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This is a clear indication that the employment report that comes out every month doesn't really reflect the unemployment problem in its entirety. The problem is that once people have stopped looking for job, they're no longer accounted into the group of people that are unemployed.

If they stopped looking then they obviously don't need a job very badly and shouldn't be counted a unemployed (and needing work).
 

targus

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If they stopped looking then they obviously don't need a job very badly and shouldn't be counted a unemployed (and needing work).

The unemployed whose unemployment benefits have run out are considered to be "not looking" for employment.

It's an accounting gimmick to make the unemployment rate look better than it actually is.

Many people without work are also without hope and simply exist in quite desperation.
 

Livingnow

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If they stopped looking then they obviously don't need a job very badly and shouldn't be counted a unemployed (and needing work).

I would never conclude that they don't need job. People stop looking for work as a result of being fed up during the process.
 

Earth Wind and Fire

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The unemployed whose unemployment benefits have run out are considered to be "not looking" for employment.

It's an accounting gimmick to make the unemployment rate look better than it actually is.

Many people without work are also without hope and simply exist in quite desperation.

Very good.....:thumbs:
 
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