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Comment on Are inmates apart of the jobs report that comes out? Like the ones who fight wildfires, or clean up roads or on a work release program? What about the unemployment numbers?

cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

There are different unemployment numbers but the main one is a person is unemployed if they

do not have a job
are actively looking for a job and
are eligible to be hired

Inmates probably don’t count for 2 and/or 3 and thus would not count as unemployed

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Patnou@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That is fucked up.

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- cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Why?
  
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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Doesn’t the federal rely on polls or something, like it isn’t accurate. And then at the state level if someone goes beyond unemployment payments which is usually only like 6 weeks, I think they also fall into not being considered unemployed anymore but I’m not 100% how they mark that.

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- ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  One of the statistics relies on who is applying for Unemployment Insurance payments.
  
  Which run out if you’re on them for 6 months in a year. So that stat starts to get really unreliable after July, and gets worse as it approaches December.
  
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