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2012-04-09 Economy

GOP lawmaker calls for change to how government measures unemployment

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Posted by gorb 2012-04-09 00:16|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The current official ~~lies~~ statistics help Zero and give a fig leaf to he MFM, so good luck with that. Perhaps Hunter can get the govt. to stop leaving out food & fuel from the inflation rate while he's at it.

Posted by PBMcL 2012-04-09 00:47|| 2012-04-09 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Both sides have been cooking the books.

Posted by badanov 2012-04-09 00:56|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2012-04-09 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Here's a potential State by State metric, I call it..... "Folks Who Are Not Doing So Well" or (FWANDSO)

A = Folks receiving State Unemployment checks.
B = Folks receiving other forms of financial aid.
C = Folks who filed, but paid - 0 - income taxes.
D = Pensioners not receiving aid.
E = Total number of Folks in State.

E - (A + B + C) - D = FWANDSO

Posted by Besoeker 2012-04-09 01:30|| 2012-04-09 01:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Better to expand unemployment by shutting down the DoL bureau of statistics. Once compromised as they've been, they're never going to accurately report numbers. As we see now, we have dueling numbers and statisticians. It won't go away, so just let the private and state sectors do the work. That at least removes the national government from citing their own bogus numbers when rationalizing actions or inaction.

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-04-09 09:07|| 2012-04-09 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Pension funds are not doing too good either.
US union pensions hole deepens to $369bn

Posted by tipper 2012-04-09 10:27|| 2012-04-09 10:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Everybody's heard about lies, damned lies and statistics, right?

And then there was a comedian so many years ago that I can't remember his name who said, "When your neighbor loses his job it's a recession. When you lose your job it's a depression."

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-04-09 12:51|| 2012-04-09 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm sure the new measure will get full support of Democratic lawmakers---as soon as USA has a Republican president.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-04-09 14:18|| 2012-04-09 14:18|| Front Page Top

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