What is the true rate of unemployment in USA? Reported statistics are only those getting benifits not jobseekr

Question

This i know out the 300 million in USA only 130 million reported incomes from any source or type! that comes from 2005 IRS statistics! What is your guess at the TRUE % rate of legal Americans wanting or needing work?

Do you people have reading comprehentional problems? The question clearly ask for the true rate generally given a % figure. Then states a source IRS with public charts to see how many people in 2005 reported ANY type of income regardless of source or type! Everyone of you failed to even guestimate i.e. the true unemployment rate is 30 to 35% depending on area of unemployment for example! Are you people really that hopeless? No wonder USA has not won a war since 1945 and dessert storm do not count as a full scale war!

Answer 1

only new claims for benefits are counted each month toward unemployment

Answer 2

How can that be? That means 170 million people are not working, or at least not paying taxes. I guess you would have to not count the entire population, because some are retired elderly, or underage children, or disabled, or illegal? Interesting. I would like to know the percentages of each group.

Answer 3

I know that unemployment is the lowest that it's been in 50 years.
And employers and factories are begging for help.
And our economy is so good that it has absorbed millions of illegal workers.
The unemployment will go UP as soon as the Minimum Wage is raised. It always does. It will hurt many workers.

Answer 4

that's not true. The number of people collecting is only one aspect of how they determine that number.

If you go to the labor departments website they have more detail on how they compute the number

Answer 5

are you including student, and retirees where did you get your sources from?