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The unemployment rate in November 2011 came down to 8.6% from 9.0% in the previous month. What could have been a possible reason for the decrease in the unemployment rate even when many new jobs were not created in the economy at that time?

More people have fallen off of the unemployment list. Not because they got a job but because their time limit on unemployment compensation ran out. That number is skewed in so many ways and can be manipulated by the powers that be.

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The unemployment rate in November 2011 came down to 8.6% from 9.0% in the previous month. What could have been a possible reason for the decrease in the unemployment rate even when many new jobs were not created in the economy at that time?

More people have fallen off of the unemployment list. Not because they got a job but because their time limit on unemployment compensation ran out. That number is skewed in so many ways and can be manipulated by the powers that be.