[BizBroker]

None of them are confusing to me. My question to you is this. Does the percentage of those in the working population who are unemployed and looking for work, given up looking for work, unemployed and collecting benefits, and dropped out of the workforce, now stand at 7.8% of the entire workforce?

[Canedawg]

Lies. damn lies, and statistics.

[1rudeboy]

Hello? We are discussing whether unemployment compensation figures into the calculation of the unemployment rate. And it does not.

relevant quote: "I'm used to people saying something that's not always true, but just keep on repeating it and ultimately hoping I'll believe it."