“You are right even more than you have posted that you are. Many who are unemployed do not file for unemployment benefits, and it is the number of unemployed filing which represents the percentage of unemployed.
This is a common myth. Actually, the published unemployment rate is based on a phone survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They target a certain number of residences in each census district. Since they want it to be accurate, if you don’t answer the phone they send guys who will knock on your door. The employees who run the survey are highly trained and ask a tightly controlled set of non-leading questions.
” The employees who run the survey are highly trained and ask a tightly controlled set of non-leading questions.”
We are talking government employees here right? Chances are they do most of it via write-ins.
I cannot understand how people think outsourcing is good. The companies doing outsourcing don’t drop their prices. The people displaced generally earn significantly less during the transition and we are shipping BILLIONS of dollars over seas. On top of that we are training our competition. The biggest advantage we have is our knowledge, and we ship that overseas without a thought.