I don’t know why anyone is surprised at these numbers. There were stories in the paper last week about how a major restaurant chain was experimenting with moving their employees from full time to part time status under 25 hours per week. If you had 2 employees working 35 hours per week each that were considered full time, and you cut their hours back to under 25 per week, then what happens? The work is still there. So management has to hire a third person. Now you have 3 people working under 25 hours per week each, which helps to bring the unemployment number down, but should be really hurts the 2 people who were previously employed full time. I suspect that this is happening all over the country right now. We won’t know the truth about these numbers for a number of months, I’m sure. But that doesn’t mean they are being fudged. I truly believe that this is the new economy. Or should I say the new economy under Obamacare.