Naive Question: Job Growth in America

[monster]

This is the article that nudged my question. Generally I like the BBC's reporting and find it fair, but this seemed to be an article with an agenda. But that said, my experience at the job I had for 5 years until recently was that almost everyone but us full-time back office folks (and even one of them) had other jobs just to get by

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51578045

[Griff]

http://www.businessdictionary.com/de...bs-growth.html

Hmm... only new payroll jobs, self employment isn't counted. You get what you measure...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Years ago I was surprised to read the headcount of unemployed is only people on the unemployment rolls. Once your benefits run out you drop out of sight and join the ranks of homeless, ghosts to the government. I wonder if that has changed?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Years ago I was surprised to read the headcount of unemployed is only people on the unemployment rolls. Once your benefits run out you drop out of sight and join the ranks of homeless, ghosts to the government. I wonder if that has changed?

It's one of the U-measures of employment/unemployment; there are others in that same system. I gather it doesn't take too much skull sweat to assess one measurement of unemployment numbers against another, and arrive at a satisfactory estimate. I seem to recall officially-cited unemployment stats were changed to this measure in Obama's second term.

Another of the U-measures adds the unemployed-benefits people together with the ones that for one reason or another have dropped out of even looking for work, for an aggregate total of non-employed right now.

For the last year in the Oxnard area there seems to be a Help Wanted Now Hiring sign in every shop window. This is in California, mind -- not a wildly business friendly place if it's not Silicon Valley or Hollywood -- to a lesser extent, oil. Four years ago it wasn't that way. Sacramento is the one-party abode of dumbshits.