Where's your opinion? Why is it good? Tell it to the real unemployed which number is about 15% ( the U6 number)
We gain 163k jobs and loose 195k jobs in July, and that's good news????????
This is what you call good news??
The BLS always releases six different unemployment numbers, U-1 through U-6. Each of the six classifications breaks unemployment down in several different ways. For instance, the U-1 unemployment number released today shows an unemployment rate of 4.5%; but, the U-1 classification includes only, “Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force.” Simultaneously, the number U-6 unemployment number released today shows an unemployment rate of 15%; but, the U-6 classification includes, “Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force.” And finally, the unemployment number that is considered the official unemployment rate of the United States is the U-3 classification, which was reported to have risen to 8.3% in July from 8.2% in June. The U-3 classification includes only, “Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate).”
(To read the entire BLS employment report for July 2012, click here.)
The main difference between the U-3 classification (our official unemployment rate) and the much more severe U-6 classification is that the U-6 classification includes those who are only marginally attached to the labor force. As the BLS defines it, those who are marginally attached to the labor force are, “those who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule.” In reality, the U-6 unemployment number is much more indicative of the employment situation in the country and provides a much less subjective look, and therefore a more complete look at the employment picture in the country.
The U-6 unemployment number reached its highest level of 17.4% in October of 2009.
(Read the entire BLS October 2009 employment report here.) Since then it has dropped 2.4% to 15%.
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