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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do those jobs reports account for immigrants going home?  If not, that is extra reason to fire BLS and DOL.[/quote]

The jobs number don’t but the unemployment rate reflects immigrants leaving/being deported. It stayed at 4.2%, despite weak jobs number because there are fewer people looking for work. [/quote]
Would an undocumented immigrant be entitled to unemployment. And if not, they would have never been counted in the numbers to begin with, soo not sure your statement is accurate. [/quote]

Unemployment rate is not the same as UI applications rate. Undocumented people will be counted as part of the labor force (payroll numbers, for example). They are not eligible for UI.

BLS:
Some people think that to get these figures on unemployment, the government uses the number of people collecting unemployment insurance (UI) benefits under state or federal government programs. But some people are still jobless when their benefits run out, and many more are not eligible at all or delay or never apply for benefits. So, quite clearly, UI information cannot be used as a source for complete information on the number of unemployed.

Other people think that the government counts every unemployed person each month. To do this, every home in the country would have to be contacted—just as in the population census every 10 years. This procedure would cost way too much and take far too long to produce the data. In addition, people would soon grow tired of having a census taker contact them every month, year after year, to ask about job-related activities.

[b]Because unemployment insurance records relate only to people who have applied for such benefits[/b], and since it is impractical to count every unemployed person each month, the government conducts a monthly survey called the [b]Current Population Survey (CPS) to measure the extent of unemployment in the country.[/b] The CPS has been conducted in the United States every month since 1940, when it began as a Work Projects Administration program. In 1942, the U.S. Census Bureau took over responsibility for the CPS. The survey has been expanded and modified several times since then. In 1994, for instance, the CPS underwent a major redesign in order to computerize the interview process as well as to obtain more comprehensive and relevant information.[/quote]

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