The lady that drove me to work the other day, says not to take the numbers literally... because she is among the underemployed and unemployed bunch in the states... she's an engineer by job set, yet the only thing she found to do as of right now is be a Taxi Driver.
yeah, the employment statistics lie to their teeth over here as well.
more and more people in in low paid, unreliable agency work . Very few real jobs on the market.
more and more people kicked out of the benefit system, and not because they found work, but for any number of petty reasons, which mosrtly add up to - if they're not signing on , they no longer count as unemployed.
more and more homeless
more and nore people not bothering to register as unemployed, because they did that last time, and found they couldn't keep up with the gruelling requiriments , such as keeping detailed documentary evidence to prove that they're looking for work for 40-hours per week and/or they can't stomach the inevitable degree of pretence involved in looking so hard for what isn't there., and would sooner turn to honest thievery , depenancy on relatives, or plain destitution.
more and more people succumbing to depression and dropping off the radar one way or another.