[lbo-talk] Brad DeLong's dubious view of layoff restrictions

[Jim Devine]

>On 4/3/06, jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote: I
was always under the impression that US unemployment counted the rolls
of those receiving unemployment checks .... When you stop receiving
your check you were no longer counted even if you still have not found
work. This is not true? The US counts as unemployed people who have
used up their unemployment insurance yet have not found work?<

the US Bureau of Labor Statistics uses a sample survey of those
outside of "institutions" (prisons, etc.) If you don't have a job but
you're actively looking for one, you're counted as unemployed. Period.
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Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual freedom in the presence
of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles