Tuesday, July 12, 2011

The Phony Unemployment Reports

We keep getting unemployment reports that have little to do with true unemployment. It’s yet another case of the administration getting away with chicanery that the executives of a private enterprise would be arrested for.

Right now the unemployment rate is supposedly 9.2%. The media tells us so, and they are out to report on all the dirt they can find, or so they say.

But if you look even deeper in the June report’s U-6 unemployment rate, which includes folks who are underemployed and seeking full-time jobs that they can't find, that rate is 16.2 and growing.

By the way, the U-6 number doesn't include those who have givenup seeking work.

I would suggest viewers look up the Bureau of Labor Statistics site at www.bls.gov for details on the different facets of unemployment the media forgets about. ( See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments.)

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