Unemployment numbers come from State’s tallies of people that are currently claiming and drawing unemployment. So if you don’t find a job in 26 weeks and you’re unemployment runs out, you’re no longer “unemployed”. If you quit or were fired and unable to qualify for unemployment, you’re not “unemployed”. If you’re disabled and can’t work you’re not “unemployed”.
Jobs data is just as bad. They do a survey of business and ask how many are hiring. Even if they don’t hire anyone, or it’s a ghost job, it’s still counted as an “available job created”.
As for new jobs filled, they survey payroll companies like PAYCHEX.
Counts of who is looking for a job or not is done with another survey.
Inmates are not counted in any of this.
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
That is fucked up.
Why?
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.
Speaking of the ones that fight wildfires, calfire could use and train prisoners for wildlands fire fighting, but as soon as they were released, calfire rules would not allow them to be hired due to their criminal background.
They finally changed it in the last 5 years or so.
