Unemployment benefits drop to 6 months

[stinginstang]

I have no intentions of riding out on gub money for the entire time, but I'm not having any luck finding a comparable job and pay.

It's much harder to find a job when you don't have a job. You're just not as appealing as other employed applicants. Even if it's part time, take something. You won't lose all of your unemployment if working part time.

[DaisyDoesDallas]

The good part is this means that the unemployment rate has dropped and more people are starting to get jobs so that in turn should mean better economy

we shall see

How you figure?

[2165 Turbo Rail]

How you figure?

The reason they change it is because the unemployment is down to 7.0. That's supposedly means less unemployed people therefore more people working and economy moving upward. I'm not sayin it is but that is the assumption

[DaisyDoesDallas]

The reason they change it is because the unemployment is down to 7.0. That's supposedly means less unemployed people therefore more people working and economy moving upward. I'm not sayin it is but that is the assumption

You know what they say about ^^^

[Geor!]

The good part is this means that the unemployment rate has dropped and more people are starting to get jobs so that in turn should mean better economy

we shall see

The numbers have been skewed since probably forever, but this administration is skewing them even more. The real rate is upwards of 15% and combined with under-emplyment, it's in the 20s or possibly 30s.

[Geor!]

The reason they change it is because the unemployment is down to 7.0. That's supposedly means less unemployed people therefore more people working and economy moving upward. I'm not sayin it is but that is the assumption

7.0? Who told you that? Hasn't even gone below "8%."

[Forever_frost]

The reason they change it is because the unemployment is down to 7.0. That's supposedly means less unemployed people therefore more people working and economy moving upward. I'm not sayin it is but that is the assumption

Umm as of today, unemployment is up to 8.2%. That's just what they're admitting to. Real unemployment is almost 25%

[slow99]

The reason they change it is because the unemployment is down to 7.0. That's supposedly means less unemployed people therefore more people working and economy moving upward. I'm not sayin it is but that is the assumption

No it isn't, it rose from 8.1 to 8.2% today.

[slow99]

Lmfao, the real number is 90% sheeplezzz!!

[2165 Turbo Rail]

No it isn't, it rose from 8.1 to 8.2% today.

As of mid may when they made the change I what I read

[2165 Turbo Rail]

http://www.bizjournals.com/mobile/dallas/news/2012/05/18/texas-unemployment-rate-drops-to-69.html

[Geor!]

Texas has always been a couple of points lower than the nat'l avg.

[2165 Turbo Rail]

http://www.twc.state.tx.us/ui/bnfts/unemployment-news.html

[TeeShock]

Texas has always been a couple of points lower than the nat'l avg.

if you factored in all of the illegals working here off the books we have a negative rate

[Baron Von Crowder]

The reason they change it is because the unemployment is down to 7.0. That's supposedly means less unemployed people therefore more people working and economy moving upward. I'm not sayin it is but that is the assumption

they changed how they calculate who is unemployed to make the numbers look better. People who are still without work after x time dont count anymore, so the number goes down...