EconProf I just can’t imagine that 320,000 +/- people (the percentage of people that would amount to the .3% of people in question) just stopped looking for work. It just doesn’t make sense. Even in a strong economy I can’t imagine that high of a percentage of the unemployed would just drop off the map. I think the government will see some major fundamental problems with the way they track unemployment if and when we get out of this mess.