I wasnt referring to anything Illegal at all....contractors are self employed and get a 1099...since they arnt filing a W4 for their jobs they arent being counted.
ALOT of IT jobs have switched to Contracters vrs. direct hire
My brother in law is a CPA and says his company and alot of competitors have allready tried outsourcing those jobs and have allready started bringing them back to the states because of poor quality work.
Latest figures i've seen says only 300-350,000 jobs have been outsourced over the last 3 YEARS. How big is our workforce????? sounds like a pretty small percentage to me
you mis-understand the way it is counted. they don't take you off of the list when you start reporting wages through a W-2. (and that is the whole point of the post I think)
they way they calculate the unemployemnt rate is people who apply for unemployment (and recieve) unemployment benifits.
when you stop recieving a check you are considered employed (or at least don't figure into the unemployed %, which yeilds the same result).
so if you are on unemployment and become self employed, then you are no longer elegible for benifits and are taken off the list of unemployed (so yes, you would be counted as someone who returned to work. even though you don't technically 'have an employer').
if the job situation is so bad, that your benifits run out before you find work, then you are nolonger counted as unemployed.
if you where new to the workforce and hadn't worked long enough to qualify for unemployment compensation, before your job was sent overseas- then you never where unemployed.
as we get farther into this fluffied up economy more and more peoples benifits run out and they fall out of the '%unemployed' in the reports. thats how the ecconomy can still be so jacked-up but the % shows emprovement.
