Paul Soloman on PBS NewsHour makes the case early and often that the official unemployment numbers are not accurate; it’s much worse than being reported. How much worse? Try 12%.
The officially counted unemployed like urban youth, which is at 35%;
The Discouraged Worker who is becoming deskilled;
We know that discouraged workers are not counted in the unemployment figures.
The NY City Schools are also aministratively removing chronically failing students in ways that will not contribute to their Regents Exam percent of students passing rate.
\brad mccormick
The increase in those on full time disability;
The rise of the prison population, 2/3 of which were unemployed at incarceration.
Non Working Numbers @ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/july-dec03/unemployment_07-29.html
Please congratulate me on not launching into a Bush2-failed economic policy-class warfare politics diatribe.
KWC
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