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More people are jobless than you think..

Oh yes your Government will give you statistics saying for example 15% percent of Americans are unemployed. How they get that 15% is by how many US citizens are on welfare- they don't mention the homeless, those suspended from welfare, the people with terrible mental health that can't even function enough to apply for welfare, or the 'self employed' prostitutes, drug dealers etc.

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Sicarium · 46-50, M

You're partly right. Official numbers have us at 4.8% (last time I checked) unemployment. Which is a nonsense number. There's 95 million Americans "out of the labor force," which means "not looking for work." Of course the Department of Labor hasn't asked all 95 million of those people if they're looking for work or not and those people aren't counted in the official unemployment number. The DoL simply removed them, arbitrarily, from the eligible column to cook the numbers. Before Obama's Presidency, we had around 45 million people out of the labor force. Real unemployment is somewhere around 12 to 15%. Underemployment is around 20%.