06-09-2008, 05:19 PM
They have also stopped putting out a couple statistics that might be even more important with the changes in the type of jobs available over the last couple decades. The first, listing the number of "discouraged workers", kept track of how many persons had been looking for a job for more than a year or had stopped looking. They are not counted as "uneployed". Second, how many persons fall into the "underemployed" category? Those would be all the part-timers who would rather be working full-time. Or persons without benefits, but working an equivalent number of hours to full.