On May 12 the Federal government will no longer admit to the existence of 193,00 citizens who are at of work.
At that point, since they will no longer be receiving unemployment checks the Feds will no longer consider them part of the work force, meaning the unemployment rate goes down as the number of unemployed go up.
“Time is running out for 93,000 jobless workers in California. The state’s Employment Development Department said that a federal extension for unemployment benefits will expire on May 12.
More than 100,000 workers who might have qualified for the 20-week extension shortly also won’t get the extended help.”
A total of 193,000 people will disappear, so Obama can claim his policies are working and America is in “recovery”. Of course real people understand he is lying and has decided his destiny is more important than yours.
Some jobless workers run out of time for benefits
Sacramento Business Journal by Melissa Wiese, 4/25/12
Time is running out for 93,000 jobless workers in California. The state’s Employment Development Department said that a federal extension for unemployment benefits will expire on May 12.
The state no longer qualifies for a federal extension program called FED-ED, usually the last extension of unemployment benefits, according to EDD.
More than 100,000 workers who might have qualified for the 20-week extension shortly also won’t get the extended help.
EDD said it’s in the process of notifying unemployed people who are getting extended benefits under the program. The agency said it would provide information and other resources to help those people find other ways to get help.
“The particularly harsh recession left many people unemployed for long periods of time,” Pam Harris, director of EDD, said in a news release.”The FED-ED program is designed to end once a state’s economy starts to significantly improve. Still, we know this is hard on our clients. We’re doing everything we can to get word out so they can plan accordingly.”
During the last three years, 912,445 people in the state have received extended benefits under the federal program, according to EDD.
The extension was designed to help workers after the initial 26 weeks of regular unemployment benefits paid by the state, as well as other tiers of federal benefits. During the downturn of the economy, jobless workers could have received as many as 99 weeks of benefits – including 53 weeks from the federal government.
The state’s estimated jobless rate is 11 percent. More than 1.1 million people are eligible for jobless benefits, and most of them are receiving some sort of federal extension, the state said.
Back in the real world, the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not, of course, calculate the number of unemployed people by counting the number receiving benefits, ‘cos of them not being retarded.
How they actually do it is explained here: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.pdf
Before ranting on about how your imaginary made-up “government edict” is part of Obama’s evil web of lies, you could have spent a couple of minutes with google to find out if YOU were telling the truth.
May 26, 2012 at 10:55 am
The unemeployment may be dropping for the state of Ca. but here in the high desert, it is still over 16%
May 9, 2012 at 12:33 pm
I applied for 6 jobs yesterday alone, and will apply for more today. The engineering /construction industry in California is dead. There are no jobs. I’ve been stuck in unemployment limbo for 3 or 4 years now; it’s been so long I forgot. I keep touch with many contacts in the industry and they all tell me that they are not seeing any new work.
Now my government, or should I call them “my federal family” gave me a weeks notice that they are reneging on my FED-ED benefits and I will no longer even count as an unemployed citizen in the governments eyes. Well here’s the way I see it, this is an election year and all you incumbents will be unemployed come this fall.
This is not “my federal family”, this is a bunch of idiots who are traitors to those they serve.
Buy American people. Keep our jobs here.
May 6, 2012 at 7:32 am
I’ve been unemployed for 4 years now…about ready to “occupy” the White House…either that, or rob the nearest Chase bank, to get back MY share of their bailout!!
April 26, 2012 at 7:57 pm
Something for CNN and the others to brag about. Unemployment drops…….without all the facts. People will believe it because they want to!!
April 26, 2012 at 6:12 pm