Second, about unemployment: the U.S. unemployment numbers have nothing to do with unemployment benefits. The Census surveys households, and asks whether adults are employed, and if not, whether they are actually searching for a job. So searching but not employed is the definition. And that in turn means that expiring benefits, whatever you may think of them, don’t have any direct effect on measured unemployment.
via Data Miconceptions – NYTimes.com.
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