[kiryandil]

False. Unemployment compensation has nothing to do with how the unemployment rate is calculated.

Nice change of subject, rude. But you already knew that...

Smokin' Joe: Now, because you no longer qualify for Federal unemployment benefits, if you don't have a job, you don't count. You are a 'discouraged worker' or some such and no longer in the labor force.

True.

[1rudeboy]

Read my #13 and weep that you didn’t.