Jobless Claims and the Madness of Numbers

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The Dept. of Labor keeps unemployment figures in various slots.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm

Probably U-5 or U-6 would be what your average person on the street would regard as real unemployment. I wonder what they used during the Great Depression? Did they have spin doctors back then?

Luther of IL 10:50PM March 19, 2009

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