Unemployment numbers improve in Kern County and statewide

Did anyone ask how many have dropped off the map because their unemployment benefits ran out?

Great response Freedom. Might I add that if things are so much better in Kern and the state/country, why did an unemployment worker call my neighborh last Saturday to do the final processing of his application? When he asked why they were calling on a Saturday the answer was...because we are so backed up that we are working all kinds of extra hours to catch up on delayed applications and to get peoples claims started. Also, now that the overall CA unemployment level is below the National cap for being able to get any extensions people are limited to 23 weeks of unemployment so now more people are still unemployed at the end of that time and they fall into the deep dark hole of the uncounted world. Which the government then considers working...Spin time again as the election draws closer.

Dont you people RESEARCH your stories.Specially when they look suspecious.Or maybe your not programed to see tom foolery.And just beleive everything the government tell you.With out questioning it.Its your job as a patriot to keep freedom free Making 9 Million Jobless "Vanish": How The Government Manipulates Unemployment Statistics By Daniel R. Amerman, CFA Overview When we look at broad measures of jobs and population, then the beginning of 2012 was one of the worst months in US history, with a total of 2.3 million people losing jobs or leaving the workforce in a single month. Yet, the official unemployment rate showed a decline from 8.5% to 8.3% in January - and was such cheering news that it set off a stock rally. How can there be such a stark contrast between the cheerful surface and an underlying reality that is getting worse? The true unemployment picture is hidden by essentially splitting jobless Americans up and putting them inside one of three different "boxes": the official unemployment box, the full unemployment box, and the most obscure box, the workforce participation rate box. As we will explore herein, a detailed look at the government's own data base shows that about 9 million people without jobs have been removed from the labor force simply by the government defining them as not being in the labor force anymore. Indeed - effectively all of the decreases in unemployment rate percentages since 2009 have come not from new jobs, but through reducing the workforce participation rate so that millions of jobless people are removed from the labor force by definition. When we pierce through this statistical smoke and mirrors and factor back in those 9 million jobless whom the government has defined out of existence, then the true unemployment rate is 19.9% and rising, and not 8.3% and falling. For the small percentage of people who are aware that the purported decline in unemployment rates is primarily based on the mysterious rapid decli