Unemployment rates are fake btw
What i was unemployed last year I experienced what I already had seen other friends experience: the whole unemployment system is designed to prevent you from using it and if you work remotely it’s even harder as you have to file twice and maybe they accept you.
* incorrect i was working on bad information
That's false. From the BLS:
>Classification as unemployed in no way depends upon a person's eligibility for, or receipt of, unemployment insurance benefits.
>There is no requirement or question relating to unemployment insurance benefits in the monthly Current Population Survey.
By the definition they are correct. The definition is fake as in the formula is changed to suit political goals and doesn't reflect what an unemployed person is.
If a period of time passes where you still can't find a job you get excluded. You are no longer unemployed. Tell that to your parents/wife. That alone makes the entire definition more than suspect. Onr might even say fake.
What do you mean by "ever changing definition"? The U-3 definition has been used for decades. At some point you've just got to admit you had the wrong definition rather than blaming other people for using "fake" numbers.
>If a period of time passes where you still can't find a job you get excluded. You are no longer unemployed. Tell that to your parents/wife. That alone makes the entire definition more than suspect. Onr might even say fake.
I'm not sure what you got that from, but this contradicts the definition from the BLS:
>In the Current Population Survey, people are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following criteria:
> They were not employed during the survey reference week.
> They were available for work during the survey reference week, except for temporary illness.
> They made at least one specific, active effort to find a job during the 4-week period ending with the survey reference week (see active job search methods) OR they were temporarily laid off and expecting to be recalled to their job.
I'm not sure what you mean by "represented"? Someone who doesn't have a job in order to be a caretaker or keep up a household would count as not employed, even though those people are still doing work. (The same would apply for people without jobs and spend their time in school or volunteering.)
They do ask why people aren't working in government surveys, so that information is available to analyze. I wasn't able to quickly find an overall recent figure, but there is a figure for people who are technically in the labor force but haven't looked for work in the last month: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea38.htm. And I also found an older figure: https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-4/people-who-are-not-in-....