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I only recently learned how the ""unemployment rate"" is calculated. Insane.

It only counts people who are actively searching for a job. ...
Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler
  04/06/26
r u 19?
Violet tank public bath
  04/06/26
titcrru19
Poppy seedy sanctuary international law enforcement agency
  04/06/26
The last para I've known for a long, long time. Just spellin...
Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler
  04/06/26
do you not remember this being brought up daily w obama and ...
Violet tank public bath
  04/06/26
On the bort or in general? I wasn't on the bort for most of ...
Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler
  04/06/26
This method was fake back then. But now it means that we hav...
stimulating aggressive roast beef pit
  04/06/26
still fake and even faker with gig econ, we may as well thro...
Violet tank public bath
  04/06/26
Those are called discouraged workers. They are counted in U-...
hairless nighttime headpube
  04/06/26
Thank you, I didn't know that was also released.
Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler
  04/06/26
Everyone figured this out during ITE you dipshit. The only t...
Slap-happy hall
  04/06/26
I was literally a child during ITE dipshit
Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler
  04/06/26
Same that was like a quarter century ago lol
Abnormal pearly lodge
  04/06/26
no one on this board is under 40. I refuse to believe it.
Slap-happy hall
  04/07/26
Sir some of us are a yung&fresh 38
mind-boggling pearl resort boiling water
  04/07/26
Cr
Startling Learning Disabled Turdskin Juggernaut
  04/07/26
Wait till you find out how they calculate “inflation&r...
Fiercely-loyal passionate chapel
  04/07/26
not just ppl who stop looking but those who never looked cau...
Galvanic sandwich
  04/07/26
All of these stats are fake, flame, and fraudlies, but labor...
Arrogant doobsian travel guidebook
  04/07/26
Did you finish high school? how is this news to you
Sooty site
  04/07/26
how do they rate it if you have a job on paper but *choose* ...
at-the-ready water buffalo
  04/07/26
U6 is going to blow ur fucking mind
Poppy seedy sanctuary international law enforcement agency
  04/07/26
my nephew lives in a condo complex and out of 12 neighbors, ...
cerebral rose lay
  04/07/26
Do you know any person of working age who lacks a job for mo...
Out-of-control Piazza Dog Poop
  04/07/26


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Date: April 6th, 2026 10:57 PM
Author: Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler

It only counts people who are actively searching for a job. So it excludes people who have given up on finding a job because they've been searching so long without luck.

I suppose it would be DEFENSIBLE to exclude the people who don't WANT a job at all: adults who are content living in their parents' basements and never even tried to find a job, or gave minimal effort. But realistically, a TONNNNN of people who have dropped out of the workforce (by those disingenuous standards) did so because they decided there WEREN'T any jobs for them and gave up.

Fortunately you can calculate the ACTUAL unemployment rate because the numbers are released for all of the categories, and you can work backwards by excluding retired people, people too disabled to work, and so on. Generally it's around 2x the reported unemployment rate.

Fake and gay, it's all fake and gay. The government is constantly gaslighting us.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854380&forum_id=2).#49799218)



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Date: April 6th, 2026 10:59 PM
Author: Violet tank public bath

r u 19?

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Date: April 6th, 2026 10:59 PM
Author: Poppy seedy sanctuary international law enforcement agency

titcrru19

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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:00 PM
Author: Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler

The last para I've known for a long, long time. Just spelling it out for the sheeple. And there are a lot of sheeple on here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854380&forum_id=2).#49799227)



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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:01 PM
Author: Violet tank public bath

do you not remember this being brought up daily w obama and biden

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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:02 PM
Author: Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler

On the bort or in general? I wasn't on the bort for most of those periods and I wasn't paying attention to unemployment rate IRL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854380&forum_id=2).#49799231)



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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:09 PM
Author: stimulating aggressive roast beef pit

This method was fake back then. But now it means that we have FULL EMPLOYMENT

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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:21 PM
Author: Violet tank public bath

still fake and even faker with gig econ, we may as well throw ai agents in the mix and count them as employed humans

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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:00 PM
Author: hairless nighttime headpube

Those are called discouraged workers. They are counted in U-4 unemployment, just use that instead of U-3.

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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:00 PM
Author: Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler

Thank you, I didn't know that was also released.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854380&forum_id=2).#49799228)



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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:07 PM
Author: Slap-happy hall

Everyone figured this out during ITE you dipshit. The only thing that has changed is gig economy uber/doordash shitheads now count as employed

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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:08 PM
Author: Judgmental Talented Doctorate Deer Antler

I was literally a child during ITE dipshit

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Date: April 6th, 2026 11:46 PM
Author: Abnormal pearly lodge

Same that was like a quarter century ago lol

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Date: April 7th, 2026 9:18 AM
Author: Slap-happy hall

no one on this board is under 40. I refuse to believe it.

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Date: April 7th, 2026 9:29 AM
Author: mind-boggling pearl resort boiling water

Sir some of us are a yung&fresh 38

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Date: April 7th, 2026 7:57 AM
Author: Startling Learning Disabled Turdskin Juggernaut

Cr

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Date: April 7th, 2026 8:01 AM
Author: Fiercely-loyal passionate chapel

Wait till you find out how they calculate “inflation”, friend

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Date: April 7th, 2026 9:29 AM
Author: Galvanic sandwich

not just ppl who stop looking but those who never looked cause they are copping VA/SS disability and other welfare, thats prob 20-25% of the pop now

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Date: April 7th, 2026 9:40 AM
Author: Arrogant doobsian travel guidebook

All of these stats are fake, flame, and fraudlies, but labor force participation is closer to a useful metric than unemployment. Labor force participation was consistently between 66 and 68% between 1988 and 2008. For the last 18 years, it's been on a steady march down (minus a big swing down then back up for covid lock downs). It's at 62% and continuing to fall today.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART

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Date: April 7th, 2026 9:42 AM
Author: Sooty site

Did you finish high school? how is this news to you

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Date: April 7th, 2026 10:39 AM
Author: at-the-ready water buffalo

how do they rate it if you have a job on paper but *choose* to spend your working hours on a depressing web 1.0 law board instead

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Date: April 7th, 2026 10:56 AM
Author: Poppy seedy sanctuary international law enforcement agency

U6 is going to blow ur fucking mind

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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:03 AM
Author: cerebral rose lay

my nephew lives in a condo complex and out of 12 neighbors, only 3 go to work each day.

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Date: April 7th, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: Out-of-control Piazza Dog Poop

Do you know any person of working age who lacks a job for more than a month for any reason other than being a stay-at-home parent, a trust funder, or a complete piece of shit whom you wouldn’t hire if they applied to work at a 7-11 or Chipotle, which they have not done? There are plenty of jobs. I can name 100 people who should be fired and won’t be, and the number would be higher if I talked to more people. At the same time if we could find competent people there are 1000 roles we could fill. Find a new problem to worry about such as how retarded and gay everyone and everything are.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5854380&forum_id=2).#49800062)