[A. Pole]

You can make $500 a month, be living in government subsidized housing, get your food stamps, Medicaid, etc and be counted as employed.

I assume that huge and growing number of prisoners are not unemployed either (especially that they work for cents, undercutting the free workers, while being supported by taxpayers). BTW, prisons are counted as subsidized housing (another statistical peculiarity to remember).

[Prodigal Son]

BTW, prisons are counted as subsidized housing (another statistical peculiarity to remember).

That's because prisons are subsidized housing ;-)