Are you REALLY Unemployed?

Eh, if you aren't looking how can you be considered unemployed? You technically aren't a part of the workforce or even potential workforce material unless you are looking for a job. The best way to look at unemployment is from a standard that only includes the total workforce. There is a reason why economists use those numbers and politicians and organizations, such as the one with the video, will try to distort them.
 
I think you are missing the big picture here. Let me run this scenario by you:

You are a corporate pilot making 50k a year and you get laid off. You go on unemployment which pays 300-400 a week depending on where you live. You look and look for another job, any job paying what you were making. All you can find is a job at Wal-mart/Home Depo/Kroger paying 8-10 dollars an hour. You might get lucky and they offer you a full time gig. In the end you make whopping 400 a week for 40 hours of work. Why do this? Why not stop looking and live off the government tit for the same money doing absolutely nothing. I think they even extended benefits now for a total of 2 years! You could kick back with a beer and chill with Springer for 2 years! These are the people not looking, therefore not in the workforce. Eventually they will run out of G'ubment money, and be back in the system.
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LastTraintoMem said:
I think you are missing the big picture here. Let me run this scenario by you:

You are a corporate pilot making 50k a year and you get laid off. You go on unemployment which pays 300-400 a week depending on where you live. You look and look for another job, any job paying what you were making. All you can find is a job at Wal-mart/Home Depo/Kroger paying 8-10 dollars an hour. You might get lucky and they offer you a full time gig. In the end you make whopping 400 a week for 40 hours of work. Why do this? Why not stop looking and live off the government tit for the same money doing absolutely nothing. I think they even extended benefits now for a total of 2 years! You could kick back with a beer and chill with Springer for 2 years! These are the people not looking, therefore not in the workforce. Eventually they will run out of G'ubment money, and be back in the system.
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300-400 is the average maximum. That's what you get if you are married with dependants. I can tell you first hand in the state of illinois a single guy, with no dependants it's less than half of the 300 number your throwing around. Unemployment benefits around here only go for a maximum of 72 weeks.
 
In other states it is indeed possible to get the maximum amount of UI being single with no dependents.
 
LastTraintoMem said:
Why not stop looking and live off the government tit for the same money doing absolutely nothing.
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So you are saying you should just live with the $400? Really? Keep looking, a better job than that will eventually pop up. The entire point of unemployment is to help till you get a job, not to waste tax money we don't have.
 
Maurus said:
So you are saying you should just live with the $400? Really? Keep looking, a better job than that will eventually pop up. The entire point of unemployment is to help till you get a job, not to waste tax money we don't have.
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i think he was trying to say that it would be equally benificial and humiliating to be on unemployment or to have a McJob. So if that's the case, what is the motivation to get off the dole?
 
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