
Originally Posted by
~Rocktar~
So you just proved that I am right. It's not number of people able to work vs number employed it's based on unemployment claims. I would get more into how retarded you are but you are ClydeR and this is about all the reply you ever deserve.
The unemployment rate is not based on unemployment claims. It's cool these days never to admit a mistake, even when you know that you did. I never suspected until this moment that you might be cool, which was my mistake. From the website of the BLS, the people who compute the unemployment rate..
While not related to the national unemployment rate, UI claims data do serve as inputs into the calculation of state and local area unemployment estimates.
More...
Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it.