News, discussion, buzz about unemployment from 09.09.12 Part 7

Can I just explain something about the unemployment rate? I saw someone on FB talking about Mitt Romney would bring the unemployment rate to

It was a really bad idea to start watching Battlestar Galactica on my last day of unemployment. Now I wanna stay unemployed.

@rushlimbaugh you guys need to push for everyone to sign up for unemployment benefits. the rate is artificially low because of people quitin

TCS it is! I am officially not jobless! :) #placement

FYI: Chronic unemployment is the highest in recorded history. #AreYouBetterOff #ObamaIsntWorking

@Mattison @WSJ show if employment participation when Obama Admin began in 2009 were used now then unemployment rate today would be 11.2%

0. ZE-RO. This is not true because it's impossible. No person on earth could bring it to 0. The unemployment rate, even in an ideal good

@FoxNewsSunday @mittromney why when the president speaks about anything he makes a joke about it?the economy and jobless rate is no joke

moreover, with high youth unemployment rate (more than 35%) during his term

@Talkmaster u guys need to push everyone to sign up for unemployment benefits to get the real unemployment number out there.

economy will always be around 3%. This is because the unemployment rate factors college graduates into the unemployment rate, and also the

@Kofoo_ Its fairly clear, if you can't understand that, you shouldn't be studying English. Plus I'm jobless and looking for trouble.

unemployment rate includes people changing jobs in the workforce. You may be starting a job next month and you were employed yesterday, but

But I'm blessed to be alive..so thank you God for waking me up this morning. Thank for a job cuz I could be homeless or jobless!

@hannityshow U guys need to push everyone to sign up for unemployment so that the real unemployment number gets out.

the unemployment rate has you as unemployed today. IT WILL NEVER BE ZERO BECAUSE IT CANNOT BE.

@Deejay_Xpoint jobless niccur

@glen_beck U guys need to get everyone to sign up for unemployment benefits so that the real number gets out there on the unemployment rate.

U jobless tho -_- @Headbobba: RTing pple's favs tho. -_-

Jobless men looking for future wives

@MMFlint They like the 99 Weeks of unemployment, like me.

@EasyEarl because the 'IDIOTS who see the unemployment number come down think we are recovering - they don't know how many are OUT OF WORK

@realDonaldTrump People listen to you. get everyone to sign up for unemployment so that the numbers are real instead of artificial

The disability numbers show that if disability had remained at the pre-recession growth trend, the unemployment rate would be 1%-2% higher.

#CandyCrowley calls awful #jobs report lackluster, ignoring unemployment is 11.2% if workforce participation hadn't tanked to 63.5%. #CNN

George W. Unemployment Rates: 2001 4.7% 2002 5.8% 2003 6.0% 2004 5.5% 2005 5.1% 2006 4.6% 2007 4.6% 2008 5.8% #MissHimYet?

Unemployment &

Reduced wages and unemployment a result of Obama stimulus policies. #O2012

@THEHermanCain U guys need to push for everyone to sign up for unemployment to get the real unemployment number out there

@bccohan Did Austan Goolsbee just say don't use unemployment as a gauge for economic growth and then use unemployment to justify 2010 quote?

Massa is enjoying his last season in F1. #italianGP #Unemployed

@mtgrove @FoxNewsSunday Also trying to convince us that the current unemployment is the new norm due to baby boomer retirements #notworking

@AnnCoulter u guys need to make a push for everyone to sign up for unemployment so that the real number gets out there.

Have you ever been to the unemployment office ?

Omg Martin bout to go to the unemployment office lls

@xncampos @bitter_american @youngcons keeping it real ... Unemployment dropped from 8.3 to 8.1% because almost 400K people stopped looking!

@cspanwj the reason the Mass. was 47th in job growth was because the unemployment was already very low.

Goolsbee pitches Obama plan 2 return 2 the rates of the 90s.Says unemployment rate is lower than when he cut '10 #tax deal. #Senate

Im at the unemployment line with Martin Payne lmao

A civilization of jobless engineers and doctors because those are the only two aspirations one is allowed to have. No wonder we suck.

@MittRomney claims it's a jobless recovery. Actually, private sector jobs are up. @GOP is killing public sector jobs to offset.

@AnnBarnhardt u guys need to push for everyone to sign up for unemployment to get the numbers to reflect the real unemployment rate

@Mattison @WSJ govt stat:Last month 368,000 unemployed people left the system that calculates unemployment rate. smart keys caused typoerror

@jaygueverra unemployment you collected ?

Had my last shift at House of Fraser! Going to miss it! #unemployed

@GStephanopoulos #ThisWeek I guess Mr Ryan forgot unemployment is taxable income thanks to Regan

@Mpetrevs I have a job and I'm still broke, so you can't win no matter what you do. Thx for spending the first day of unemployment with me!

“@ashstevo: @Cam_Sheriff @robjack89 jobless twats....#doledosser” haha, I'm not going to fight you, I'll just outsmart you #moshers

@TeamRomney 3 1/2 yrs of bad economic news &

Lmaoooo!! (???) Successful pple dnt shout...so *lipsSeald* @Shola_Noni: @Deejay_Xpoint jobless niccur

@white__fleur I don't get straight A's and I might be a jobless overachiever next time while you become some famous millionaire

@cspanwj If unemployment is very low already - then job creation WILL BE LOW ... it must be low. 47th.

@AndrewNBCNews I hope @davidgregory informed him unemployment has ticked down &

@cspanwj - notice how colmes quickly deflected the fact that Mass unemployment rate was very low even though they were 47th in job creation

In islington watching the world go by #unemployed #sunday

Mitt the Twit insists he doesn't have any specifics other than instead of pell grants,ACA,jobless aid,we can always borrow $ from parents

@Mattison @WSJ Current employment participation is all time record low of 53.5% that skews the unemployment rate downwards.People r hurting.

@GF_90 not drinking then #skint #jobless as it stands :/

@WSJ For one paramount reason the jobs figure came from the Business survey &

@Ell_SHADY_Fenty hold ur horses!!! How u expecting me to afford festivals Florida Santa Ponsa and a girls holiday?!???? I'm jobless

Figured an explanation on how unemployment is calculated would help others view the number for what it truly is. Now back to football.

Next time when a black #Obama supporter debates u - Just say over 14%black unemployment rate! Repeat this as needed works real well!

Interesting article from @WSJ explains how the unemployment rate dropped bc fewer people were looking for work

No more homebase #unemployed

@Mattison @WSJ Unemployment rate is underestimated because so many people quit filing unemployment.They are unemployed.but it doesn't show

@American_hero Democrats don't understand that the low growth high unemployment doesn't happen in Republican states. @spooney35 @cspanwj

A couple minutes late for work, oh well if they fire me ill just draw unemployment

The unemployment rate doesn't matter much to #obama voters - they don't want to work anyway-

GOP who helped company owners take business overseas, is why unemployment is high.

@FLGovScott Nati Employment Law Project and Florida Legal Services, gets Scott investigated for illegal acts under Unemployment Comp Act.

@chucktodd Why don't you ask Obama why his economic policies have 23 million Americans jobless? Stop protecting your god &

omg unemployment is 14% among black americans **

I live where unemployment is booming,where does GOP get their math. It comes from the small towns with business you closed and outsourced

‘In 2008 Obama promised 2drop jobless rate to 5.4% but we got counterfeit 8%+ instead for 4yrs straight. He must go.' says a furious voter.

@keder despicable the way unemployment is calculated. Need a figure to include folks who WANT a job but dropped out completely.

@oliver_golden1 @gaibhinmcg He is not perfect but he is not anti black or anti gay . Unemployment amongst African American community is up

@ThisWeekABC Can Paul Krugman say why @barackObama stimulus didn't reduce unemployment to below 8% as projected?

@Zekacnap @melanielsn Oh shitttttttttt. Dharnia, is the worksheet abt inflation and unemployment rate?

So the US unemployment rate is dropping because more and more people have just altogether given up looking for work?

Last day of working on the beach today! #jobless travelling fund is going to suffer! :(

@Mattison @WSJ The all time low employment participation means far more people are unemployed than official unemployment rate shows.Disgrace

@MittRomney You can thank GOP Obstruction in Congress 4 jobless recovery. They R doing it 2 get U elected. Some call that treason. #MTP

Remember the Bush years when the media would always try 2 make unemployment look worse by talking about the 'real' rate? The good ole' days.

lmaooooo Martin's 1st check was $77.43 from buffing floors... that sounds like the same amount you losers get in your unemployment checks.

@japastu Amused it's in UD, but horrified by example sentence's grammar: He/she was to Flimp to go get there unemployment check cashed

@nujen29: regional unemployment rate naman oh.....

Based on current trends, the absolute number of Africans in vulnerable jobs or unemployment will not start to decline until 2085.

Paid by visa for the edge walk, guess I can't purchase any textbooks with my visa now... #broke #unemployed

@WSJ ... are entrepreneurs jobless ?? >

unemployment rate(s): 4.1% for people w/four years of college, 6.6% for two years, 8.8% for high school grads, and 12.0% for dropouts...

The unemployment rate today 4.1%with 4years of college, 6.6 % for with 2 years college, 8.8% for high school grads, and 12% for dropouts.

lmaooooo Martin's 1st check was $77.43 from buffing floors... that sounds like the same amount you losers get in your unemployment checks

My last week before I start my new job. Any suggestions for my Unemployment Farewell Tour?

@VanMeerFarms What's this I hear you like to fish? You know harvest time is fish time too, I'd have you addicted and jobless hahaha **********

@keder They used to say “REAL unemployment is actually around 9%.”

turns out on the 22nd of this month I will be jobless! :'( #shetttman

@_TheEsquire_ LOL fired! #unemployed

@tophercochran Agreed! Official unemployment is around 8%. True enemployment is probably at least double that.

just stay in home and spend my time in home like jobless!-,_-

@Mattison @WSJ Just last month 368,000 unemployed people quit filing with unemployment office. Only 96,000 new jobs were added last month.