Hey did everyone see the good news last week when all the news media started posting about the fact that unemployment claims had dropped to a 7 month low? Things are starting to turn around on the job front according to allot of the posts that I did read most of them stating that three weeks in a row of lower claims meant that job situations may be turning slowly in the right direction.
I used to fall for that media hype nonsense until I woke up a bit and started to dig a little deeper into the facts of the real situation and how the government collects the data to come up with the unemployment numbers. Let’s make this as basic as possible, if you loose your job and you don’t file an unemployment claim you are not counted. If you do file a claim and are unfortunate enough to no find a job during that time and you run to the end of your eligibility for unemployment then guess what you are not counted either.
So what does that mean really? It means that there is a very good chance that the only reason why the numbers go down at all is because people have run out of unemployment benefits and the government is no longer counting you in the numbers. You see it’s all become a numbers game or that old shell game where they just keep shuffling the real number around so you never find out how bad it really is out there. What a hot mess we are all stuck in.
What say you webfolk? Do you think the unemployment numbers that the government and news sites report are the real deal or is it all a bunch of smoke and mirrors? A house of cards if you will that will all come crashing down on us one day very soon? Leave your ideas in the comments section down below. For those of you that would like to read an example of what I am talking about here is a link to a story on the CNN site that makes no mention of the amount of people that simply ran out of unemployment benefits that week. Why don’t those people count?
Kudos to you webfolk 
Dave
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