>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 06/17/99 03:52PM >>>
Charles Brown wrote:
>Don't U.S. unemployment stats fail to take account of people who have
>exhausted unemployment benefits ?
No. U.S. unemployment stats are based on a survey of some 60,000 households. They don't include people who've given up the job search as hopeless or people who are in jail. The weekly unemployment claims figures, released every Thursday, report an "insured unemployment" figure. But that's something completely different.
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Charles: So no homeless are part of the sample ? And none who have given up the search counted as unemployed if in the sample ?
Is there any estimate of how much these would increase the unemployment counts ?
CB