Sentences with phrase «counted as unemployed»

In addition to the 14 million unemployed Americans competing for a limited number of available jobs, add to that 8.8 million other people not counted as unemployed — part - timers who want full - time work; then add to this number the countless full time workers who are gainfully underemployed, the self employed consultants who are still looking for a full - time job, and the growing number of internal candidates seeking a promotion all vying for the jobs you covet and are infinitely qualified for.

Only those actively looking for a job are counted as unemployed.

They also extend the analysis in the earlier Jones and Riddell paper to incorporate data from Canada, and compare differences in the rates of job creation for people who were counted as unemployed versus out of the labor force in the two countries.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

As you might already know, thousands of Verizon workers were on strike during the month of May and consequently were counted as unemployed.

Yet the rate has dropped in large part because many people have stopped looking for work and are no longer counted as unemployed — not because hiring has accelerated.

The jobless aren't counted as unemployed unless they're actively seeking work.

But the drop in the rate occurred mostly because many people stopped looking for work and so were no longer counted as unemployed.

On top of the 9.7 million people the government counts as unemployed, an additional 9.7 million either want a job or would like more hours.

Not exact matches

The government doesn't count those out of work as unemployed unless they are actively searching for jobs.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says that the number of people in need of more schooling and training — counting dropouts, the unemployed, immigrants who speak little English and middle - aged workers in declining industries — is three times as large.

law schools pad their employment figures — 96 % employed — by counting as «employed» any job at all, legal or non-legal, including part time jobs, including unemployed graduates hired by the school as research assistants (or by excluding unemployed graduates «not currently seeking» a job, or by excluding graduates who do not supply employment information).

In October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics counted nearly 14 million people as unemployed, compared with 3.4 million job openings.

Key socio - economic identifiers affecting Rhode Island's at risk children in poverty, as pinpointed by RI Kids Count, were children under the age of six, children of single parents, children of parents with decreased education and children whose parents worked part - time or were unemployed.