I think we've digressed here a bit since I last posted.
Kansas has a different definition of unemployed than the government uses. It's as simple as that. He wants to lump in discouraged workers, those in part-time who are looking for full time employment, and marginally attached workers. This is fine - it's called the U-6 unemployment rate. The headline unemployment rate, however, only includes those who are in the labor force who do not have a job. A discouraged worker, by definition, is not in the labor force. They're too frustrated to even bother entering it, even though they're able and willing to work.
So I'll start with this, Kansas, do you agree that the definition of unemployed is "someone in the civilian labor force who cannot find a job" and do you agree that just having a statistic about everyone over 18 that doesn't have a job is misleading? Because, I mean it doesn't make sense to include homemakers in the unemployment statistics, does it? People who don't want a job shouldn't be included.