U.S. Payroll to Population and Unemployment Worsen in May

[thenews]

The U.S. Payroll to Population employment rate (P2P), as measured by Gallup, worsened in May, dropping to 43.9%, from 44.5% in April. P2P is also down from May 2012, when it was 44.4%

Year-over-year comparisons are helpful in determining the degree to which monthly changes are the result of growth in permanent full-time positions rather than temporary seasonal hiring. The decline in P2P versus 2012 indicates that fewer people worked full-time for an employer this May compared with a year ago. The 43.9% found this May is similar to the 43.7% recorded in 2011 and 44.0% in 2010.

Gallup's P2P metric is an estimate of the percentage of the U.S. adult population aged 18 and older who are employed full time by an employer for at least 30 hours per week. P2P is not seasonally adjusted.

These results are based on Gallup Daily tracking interviews with more than 30,000 Americans, conducted May 1-31 by landline and cellphone. Gallup does not count adults who are self-employed, working part time, unemployed, or out of the workforce as payroll-employed in the P2P metric.

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[eurofreek]

That is what I am talking about : the unemployment numbers are cooked - the official numbers are not real numbers. Everybody living in US knows it

[techmac]

eurofreek:
That is what I am talking about : the unemployment numbers are cooked - the official numbers are not real numbers. Everybody living in US knows it

The government will never admit it. As far as they are concerned we are living in a perfect world. Electoral systems are all like that : you will not hear the truth simply because they are always in election