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Subject: [Leica] photographing the homeless "smug Europeans"
From: jon.stanton at comcast.net (jon.stanton@comcast.net)
Date: Sun Jan 21 09:54:45 2007

Sonny's correct on this... I forget under whose Presidency (Carter/Reagan) 
that some Economist re defined the "unemployed"  You also drop off the 
unemployed list when your benefits run out....


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: SonC@aol.com
> You are not considered unemployed in the US if you are not looking for  
> work.
>  
> "Despite their great numbers, many of the men not working are missing from 
>  
> the nationâ??s best-known statistic on unemployment. The jobless rate is 
> now a 
> low  4.6 percent, yet that number excludes most of the missing men, 
> because they 
> have  stopped looking for work and are therefore not considered officially 
> unemployed.  That makes the unemployment rate a far less useful measure of 
> the 
> countryâ??s  well-being than it once was."
> 
> much more here:
>  
> 
> http://dotcommonsense.blog-city.com/clue_to_the_low_unemloyment_rate__12_of_me
> n_in_prime_work_ye.htm
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/2bwz5c
> 
> Regards,  
> Sonny
> http://www.sonc.com
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> Oldest continuous  settlement in La Louisiane
> égalité, liberté, crawfish
>  
> 
> 
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