The official unemployment rate calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics excludes people who have not actively sought a job in the preceding four weeks, as they are no longer considered part of the civilian labor force." - from this article

How does that work? You still need money to survive but you’ve given up looking for work? You can’t be on welfare forever - how do those folks survive?

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I can speak from a very real and intimate knowledge of the experience,

    As can I.

    I am sorry you have had this experience that but that does not give you supreme authority over how I am allowed to comment about things I have experienced.