Here is how the US Department of Labor define jobs: "People are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey reference w

Here is how the US Department of Labor define jobs: "People are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey reference week. This includes all part-time and temporary work, as well as regular full-time, year-round employment. Individuals also are counted as employed if they have a job at which they did not work during the survey week, whether they were paid or not, because they were:" http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm Hopefully we will soon be able to discuss the reality of our situation and start looking at what to do about it instead of keep insisting that jobs are just jobs and that outsourcing and automation have no effect.