Of course, to be "unemployed, " one must be jobless and actively looking for work.
Many Indian students privately blame Lebanese youths, who may well be jobless gang-members.
With increased automation and many jobs going overseas, this may turn out to be a jobless recovery, but American companies continue to prosper.
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On Wednesday the Federal Reserve will release its Beige Book and on Thursday will be the weekly jobless claims.
If so, it should be hoped that this time around the less visible effects of jobless benefits can be considered.
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In France, the benefit falls over time, to encourage the long-term jobless to be less picky.
Its gloomiest suggested there could be an additional 32m jobless in the emerging world this year.
The commission thinks Germany's 4m jobless could be halved within three years were its recommendations implemented promptly.
Still, there are some signs that the long-term jobless can be coaxed back into the working world.
In this way, the Fed may still be contributing to a jobless recovery, when we finally do recover.
Helping the jobless may be more palatable than bailing out feckless states.
Many of the less ghostly beneficiaries would be neither poor nor jobless.
True, some of those southern jobless may be working in the black economy but, especially for the many ill-educated young, job prospects are pretty dire.
Several leftish academics have advocated an updated version of the 1930s Works Progress Administration in which the jobless could be put to socially useful work, such as building low-income housing or providing childcare.
On Thursday, initial jobless claims will be another data point the market will be watching.
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It sure can't be because they hire the jobless locals for the production crew.
Jobless claims will be released Wednesday because of the Thanksgiving holiday, along with the PMI Manufacturing Index Flash.
The Big Apple proves to be the healthiest spot for jobless marketing pros.
More to the point, in the banlieues, the working-class, disproportionately brown-skinned suburbs of cities such as Nice, Avignon and Strasbourg, the jobless rate can be as high as 40%.
The speed of the recovery will still be the main influence on the jobless rate.
Extended jobless payments will not be available everywhere, but only in states where the unemployment rate remains over 8%.
The national jobless rate should also be a nonstarter in such a formula because it doesn't measure regional or industry variations.
An unprecedented extension of jobless benefits may also be to blame.
As a result, jobless claims appear to be overstated now, but may be understated in the fall, when fewer workers are laid off from a smaller construction industry, which did not hire them in the spring.
The jobless initiative appears to be phase two of the government's strategy to stem Britain's startlingly dire economic decline, the first being Gordon Brown's announcement in October to invest government money in cash-strapped British banks, including Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds TSB.
Labour markets do need to be more flexible if Europe's jobless are to get back to work.
But the one thing that should be clear to everybody is that the jobless rate for African-Americans and Latinos is disproportionately high.
Economic releases, which include new home sales data and weekly jobless claims figures, will be under increased scrutiny following Mr. Bernanke's comments.
Even if European unemployment can fall to, say, 8% before triggering inflation, that is still much higher than America's structural jobless rate, which may be as low as 5%.
But a defence lawyer said in court papers filed on Monday that Peter Madoff would be left penniless, and a "jobless pariah", adding that his client was remorseful after he learned of his brother's crimes in December 2008.
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