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  • From: Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>, kurt.schlatzer AT flashpoint.com
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  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Economic growth figures rigged?
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:19:11 -0400

Why, if you aren't on unemployment, you *must* be employed!

Its not possible that someone could possible not get a job, and even if their unemployment ran out instead of ending early, I'm sure that it was immediately followed by getting hired

So of course, less people on unemployment means more people in jobs, it can't be that there are so few jobs that people are running out of unemployment and still not finding work, no, that can't be happening!

Jeez...I feel so unclean after typing that...

I had a gentleman come through my line the other day at the HT, he was clean, average dressed (not fancy, but clean clothes, reasonably nice) and it was his first time using his new EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer--welfare) card to buy groceries after he lost his job. He was even asking about if we were hiring at the HT. Now, I know better than to judge a book by its cover, but something tells me that when someone that looks like they have more than half a brain and obviously work experience is thinking about taking an unskilled labor job such as working at a grocery store, there is something wrong going on.

My $0.02
Ian

On Apr 12, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Kurt Schlatzer wrote:

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:

For a while now we've been told the economy's in a recovery, but have
been wondering why there isn't more job growth.

It seems like we continuously hear that the number of people claiming
unemployment compensation keeps dropping and it's spun as job growth. I
wonder if people who exhaust their unemployment benefits and remain
unemployed are still counted among the unemployed, or if they drop off the
roster. When I exhausted my benefits, nobody cared if I found work after
that point and I didn't have to turn in work search reports to the ESC.

Kurt Schlatzer
www.kurtschlatzer.com

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