[ACow_Adonis]

Absolutely. The presence of frictional unemployment in a super tight labor market would alone result in a higher number of unemployed people than that for a population of ~6 million, so I would assume any economist reading the stat quoted in the article would immediately proclaim it to be, in technical terms, "poppycock".

[Rexxar]

That really depends on the law that manage transition between two jobs. It's seems perfectly plausible to me. For example, if the law mandate to warn fired people 3 months in advance, they have the time to find another job before losing their current one, specially if the economy is doing well.