[1rudeboy]

Ok, let me run this by you again, slowly.

Whether or not you apply for unemployment insurance, continue employment insurance, or run out of unemplyment insurance, has nothing to do with the way the unemployment rate is calculated.

It might affect the unemployment rate, for the reasons you mention, but it could just as easily affect it downward, WHICH IS WHY THE DATA IS NOT USED.

Hilarious.

[Brown Deer]

Whether or not you apply for unemployment insurance, continue employment insurance, or run out of unemplyment insurance, has nothing to do with the way the unemployment rate is calculated.

Pay attention, dumbo!

Persons are classified as unemployed if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior 4 weeks, and are currently available for work.

Persons not in the labor force are those who are not classified as employed or unemployed during the survey reference week.

unemployment rate = number unemployed / number in labor force

When a person doesn't find a job and runs out of unemployment insurance and stops looking for work, then after four weeks they are NO longer included in the unemployed or as part of the labor force!

Now that same person is offered additional unemployment benefits. So that same person files for unemployment benefits and begins to look for work again. So, that same person is now again part of the workforce and is also included as one more unemployed person in that same calculation above!

The fact of the matter is that there are millions of people that have recently dropped off of those counted as unemployed because they have stopped looking for work. That is why the unemployment rate has recently dropped.

Are you really too dense to understand this?