The Government is telling lies about unemployment. This is not a partisan issue either folks, it is a deception practiced and used by both parties. It is sickening when you think about the way we are manipulated.
Lie #1. "Discouraged workers — unemployed workers who give up looking for jobs — are not really unemployed." Even a third grader would know that's laughable. If jobs are so hard to find that people are abandoning the search, that's a sign things are actually WORSE, right? Yes, but that's not how the government counts its headline unemployment number. Every time more people get discouraged, the government's jobless number improves! Woohoo!!
Lie #2. "Unemployed workers seeking full-time jobs who are forced to accept minimum-wage or lower paying part-time jobs are also not unemployed." In other words, based on the government's definition ...
If you're a laid-off policewoman delivering newspapers for two hours a day, or ...
If you're a former sales manager, greeting shoppers at Wal-Mart on weekends ...
You're not counted among the jobless! WooHoo!!
But if you think that's strange, consider this:
These lies are so enormous and egregious, the government has tried to address the outrage by quietly publishing another unemployment rate, dubbed "U-6." This number does include some of the part-time and discouraged workers, and that reveals an outrageously high U.S. unemployment rate of 15.1%. When was the last time you read an article or heard a news item that referenced the U-6??
Lie #3 began about 18 years ago during the Clinton administration. Back then, officials at the Bureau of Labor Statistics were counting virtually all discouraged workers — those who had given up looking for jobs because there were no jobs available. But one day, they decided to STOP counting anyone who had given up looking for more than a year. So here's the deal - If you're out of a job and you gave up looking for work 365 days ago, you're still counted as a "discouraged worker" and you're still among the 15.1% that the government admits are unemployed (based on their less known U-6 number I mentioned a moment ago).
But if you gave up looking 366 days ago, based on their cockamamie scheme, you're not "discouraged" any more. As far as they know, you're so happy, you could be dancing in the streets! WooHoo!!
Now do you see why I say the government is lying about jobs?
For anyone interested, below is a chart by Shadow stats - they track the "real" unemployment number and it is well over 20%. They have no political axe to grind...
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Lie #1. "Discouraged workers — unemployed workers who give up looking for jobs — are not really unemployed." Even a third grader would know that's laughable. If jobs are so hard to find that people are abandoning the search, that's a sign things are actually WORSE, right? Yes, but that's not how the government counts its headline unemployment number. Every time more people get discouraged, the government's jobless number improves! Woohoo!!
Lie #2. "Unemployed workers seeking full-time jobs who are forced to accept minimum-wage or lower paying part-time jobs are also not unemployed." In other words, based on the government's definition ...
If you're a laid-off policewoman delivering newspapers for two hours a day, or ...
If you're a former sales manager, greeting shoppers at Wal-Mart on weekends ...
You're not counted among the jobless! WooHoo!!
But if you think that's strange, consider this:
These lies are so enormous and egregious, the government has tried to address the outrage by quietly publishing another unemployment rate, dubbed "U-6." This number does include some of the part-time and discouraged workers, and that reveals an outrageously high U.S. unemployment rate of 15.1%. When was the last time you read an article or heard a news item that referenced the U-6??
Lie #3 began about 18 years ago during the Clinton administration. Back then, officials at the Bureau of Labor Statistics were counting virtually all discouraged workers — those who had given up looking for jobs because there were no jobs available. But one day, they decided to STOP counting anyone who had given up looking for more than a year. So here's the deal - If you're out of a job and you gave up looking for work 365 days ago, you're still counted as a "discouraged worker" and you're still among the 15.1% that the government admits are unemployed (based on their less known U-6 number I mentioned a moment ago).
But if you gave up looking 366 days ago, based on their cockamamie scheme, you're not "discouraged" any more. As far as they know, you're so happy, you could be dancing in the streets! WooHoo!!
Now do you see why I say the government is lying about jobs?
For anyone interested, below is a chart by Shadow stats - they track the "real" unemployment number and it is well over 20%. They have no political axe to grind...
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