Reply #14: Somewhere In Between [View All]

[ProfessorGAC]

The data are distorted by a new reporting methodology that only discloses those out of work who are still on UEI. When they get a temp job, they stop collecting UEI and are taken off the role. The value is not based upon the actual hiring survey sent out by Commerce, even though those data are available if one has a subscription to SAUS. So, the whole story is obfuscated by only reporting the convenient numbers.

So, the number really does go down as you explained, but using the convenient number is closer to pulling it out of the arse, than it is the truth.
The Professor