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When side-jobs hurt your chances.. |
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08/26/2004 |
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Assuming we make every college report who attends (and I??m sure people like you would have no problem with the government tracking this and would never write about it on your blogs) I still do not understand how you plan to be able to tell the difference between ??fired?? ??quit?? ??retired early?? and ??discouraged?? (etc etc) since they will normally receive unemployment benefits yet will stop reporting income on their SS#. I also don??t understand how you are going to keep track of people that are eligible after they stop receiving unemployment benefits. If they decide not to go back to work (retire early, become housewives, etc) are they just going to be counted as unemployed until they reach 65?
I think your faith in IT systems is too high. You mentioned GNP (GDP is what is normally talked about now) and if I would trust a similar method to track it. Not only would I trust it, it??s what happens. Did you really think they (are able to) track $10+ trillion (that??s 10,000,000,000,000+) worth of final goods and services? Likewise the trade numbers you mentioned are done by sampling. You can find the details at bea.gov. Can you post links to articles about how the USDA tracks these animals? I??m willing to wager that unless they are endangers (and therefore there aren??t many of them) they are tracked (and tested for disease) by using a sampling of the population. I don??t think you really understand how much statistics is used in our lives and how difficult things would be to obtain exact numbers for.
Yes, I??ve been to ??wheresgeorge??. People have to enter the data they don??t track dollar bills automatically. They also don??t track every single dollar bill they only track a few and only when someone decides to enter it, many don??t. Are you now suggesting that everyone in the country should have to call the government and tell them if they are working or not? I also don??t know what you hope to accomplish by telling the government you are still unemployed. Haven??t we established that it has nothing to do with the unemployment rate? Which leads me to my final question: since I think I have shown throughout this thread that your article is extremely inaccurate do you plan to still leave it on your site? If so how do you justify it? ??I don??t like the way the government collects data so I??m going to lie about how they, the EU, and the LATs does it???
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Should have said: The ??fired?? ??quit?? ??retired early?? and ??discouraged?? will *not* receive benefits...
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