It will be interesting to see how any of the Republicans running against Dayton
will be able to claim that he is doing a bad job when economic indicators put Minnesota on top, the most recent one - Twin Cities the lowest unemployment in the nations.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014838220
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counted as unemployed. (Jobless people who told the survey takers that they haven't looked for work in the last 4 weeks are not counted as unemployed in the headline U3 unemployment rate statistic). After all, I see that on DU ALL the time.
I also see all the time that well, people ran out of unemployment benefits and so are no longer counted (but that is 100% myth),
# Myth: "those who have exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits are not counted as unemployed. If they were counted, the official unemployment rate would be much higher" (you often hear this claim from the RepubliCONS when a Democratic president is in the White House, and vice versa when a RepubliCON is in the White House).
# Fact: the count of the unemployed and the unemployment rate is NOT a count of those receiving unemployment benefits, nor is unemployment benefit receiver status factored at all into any of the official unemployment rate statistics (U1, U2, U3, U4, U5, U6, etc.). Rather, the unemployment rate is based on a survey of 60,000 households chosen at random. See: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm (and search the page for the word "insurance"
or Google the below line::
"How the Government Measures Unemployment" cps_htgm.htm
and search the page for the word "insurance"
