Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Politicalized Unemployment Numbers

                     
Government unemployment numbers often have little to do with reality.
                     
The media emphasis usually goes along with the official government charade by placing a spin on what you are supposed to make of the raw figures, depending on the political party they favor.
                     
One illustration was the Obama administration’s past creation of the “jobs saved” number. When actual “job lost” numbers are the norm. Jobs saved were merely estimates of the “coulda, shoulda, and if” variety, that could not be truly measured.
                     
But worse, unemployment statistics leave out those who have given up looking for work, or are counting part-timers who cannot find full-time work. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter,)

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