Thursday, September 13, 2012

REAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS 23%, NOT 8.1%

Whenever you see the monthly official unemployment rates, you have to realize that they are modified rates, not actual rates. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) includes people that are unemployed during the week of the survey and without a job for the four previous weeks. Hence, the latest report says that 8.1% of Americans are currently unemployed.

But that is not a real picture of what is going on in the American job market. The BLS figures do not take into account the millions of Americans that have had to take part time jobs because they have not been able to find full time work, those who have exhausted their unemployment benefits and those who are so discouraged that they�ve given up looking for work.

There is a second statistic called the Alternative Unemployment Statistic. The AUS is always higher as it counts all of the employed except for the discouraged workers who have been out of work more than a year. The current AUS figure is 14.6%.

However, there is another even more realistic unemployment statistic that portrays a far more accurate picture of America�s job market. The SGS or Shadow Government Statistics encompass all of the different factors that deal with unemployment. The current SGS unemployment figure is a staggering 23%. That means that nearly 1 of every 4 Americans are either unemployed, underemployed, exhausted unemployment benefits or are so discouraged that they�ve given up looking for work.


Read more: http://republicbroadcasting.org/index.php?cmd=news.article&articleID=4100

No comments: