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To: SeekAndFind

6 years and $7 trillion in new debt later, unemployment rate went from 7.3% to 5.9%.

And only because labor force participation rate is at 36 year low. Otherwise, if labor rate same as 2008, unemployment rate would be 8.2%.


19 posted on 10/03/2014 7:13:05 AM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline for lease)
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Thanks. That’s what I wondered, what the unemployment rate would be, if they had not changed the way they calculate it.


27 posted on 10/03/2014 7:17:56 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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