[yellowhammer]

USA Today had a article last month that suggested that some people are being counted twice in the "jobs lost" category because of the new reality of employees changing jobs more often. The fact that the jobs number is so out of sync with the unemployment rate suggests to me that their analysis is correct, and that we need to take a long, hard look at how those jobs numbers are calculated. There is no way we have lost that many jobs the last few years.

[The G Man]

This survey is of companie. I've never heard it addressed, but where does it take into account all those who left the mainstream workforce to start their own internet based business?

[lelio]

USA Today had a article last month that suggested that some people are being counted twice in the "jobs lost" category because of the new reality of employees changing jobs more often. The fact that the jobs number is so out of sync with the unemployment rate

If this was true, then why was the unemployment level remained constant? It should of shot up by 1 or 2 percentage points, considering that hiring levels aren't close to what they were in the 90's.