Reply #35: in addition to the comment about European unemployment being hired [View All]

[Seansky]

than the US, we should add to that the number of small business that go bankrupt every year (this isn't considered in any of the indexes for unemployment that I have seen) Those tend to be ind. w/o work...What I have seen in CO is that the number of self-employed people opening their own small business is growing so rapidly because they can't find jobs and have run out of unemployment benefits. The indexes do not reflect everything. We also have large number of immigrants that can't be tracked in these indexes, but that do use the taxpayer services (no that I am necessarily against the humanity aspect of providing those services) which is one of the reasons for unemployment being tracked...