Fact And Fiction of Unemployment

Posted by admin on April 27, 2009

Daily we’re quoted by government some number or other, telling us exactly what the government wants us to think regarding the current state of employment in the country today. However, if you recall, it was a little known or remembered accountant, manipulating figures and numbers, that caught Al Capone, not one of the hot shot detectives.

So bluntly said, you CAN manipulate figures to show trends and facts the way that you want them to be viewed. Doesn’t take any Soft skills to do it either. We all do it all the time, so why should government be any different?

With regards to this, were you aware that no government figures include those that have applied for unemployment benefit, and were turned down. If you’ve only been on your job less than six months, and had not been employed for six months before that, you will get no unemployment benefits (in certain states you get a percentage of your previous drawing) or aid from the government at all. If we surmised that there’s 100 million people that can be employed in the U.S., if one percent of that was in this situation, that’s an additional one million people added to the job seekers numbers.

Jobless figures used by the government are usually drawn on the monthly returns of a payroll company, which gives the government a view on the payroll’s of those companies that use that company. However, this doesn’t even come close to addressing the number of companies that, frankly, can’t afford an outside payroll company. When are those numbers included in the projected totals etc.? What of all the companies that have employees that are under a lower than full time work week, that get laid off first but are not included, as they cannot be counted as having being employed full time? It really makes you wonder, doesn’t it?