Unemployment fell in February, but a more realistic rate remains much higher

CNBC via Yahoo ^ | 3/10/17 | Nick Wells

[Sirius Lee]

What you said. These POsS were utterly silent on the true unemployment rate, and went right along with every labor bureau accounting trick they pulled out of their butts to make homobama look good.

Now they pretend to be journalists again.

[qam1]

Speaking of “Retarded Snowflakes”

During the past winter times of the Obama Regime we were always told the “Brutal Winter Weather” was holding job creation and the economy back.

So if the reporters report the same way the story should be “The numbers are good but the brutal winter weather is preventing Trump’s greatness”.

[RainMan]

No need to recalculate anything, just republish. The numbers were put out every month, but summarily ignored. What we need is a conservative news outlet to show a graphic with the U3 and U6 both represented, across the last decade.

[trebb]

You nailed it - when Obama’s fake numbers came out, they praised him - when they “corrected”, they were silent.

[Timocrat]

What we need is a conservative news outlet to show a graphic with the U3 and U6 both represented, across the last decade.

Unfortunately even the U-6 is fudged U-3 and U-6 back to 1995

[kaehurowing]

For years the Fake News Media has been trumpeting Obama’s great achievements on jobs and how we are now at full employment. But now with Trump they now bring up the fact that real unemployment is much higher. I wonder why?

[mountn man]

The Obama Years

[Sam Gamgee]

Glad they are finally being honest. How we use the same methodology that Reagan used?

[Sam Gamgee]

I wonder if average Americans ever believed the U3 rate?

[Sam Gamgee]

To be fair, CNBC has been a sham since its inception. Chalk full of perma bulls who clearly take their talking points from Wall Street.

[tcrlaf]

Under Obama, any journalist DARING to release a headline like this would be blacklisted, and branded as a RACIST!

[Grams A]

I wonder if average Americans ever believed the U3 rate?”

No one I knew believed the unemployment rate was below 5%, particularly my neighbor who has been struggling to find a job, my friend’s husband who lost his IT job after training someone from India as his replacement or my oldest grandson who has struggled to find a second part-time job so he can pay his way through college. Jobs are available in his area but employers only seem to want to hire a minority.

I don’t even know what an average American is any more. I do think that most people are only aware of what is going on around them in their neighborhood or city. I would be a whole lot less knowledgeable about issues and be poorly informed if my only source of info is what I saw on ABC, CBS or NBC news.

[lkco]

Also tried to minimize the drop by calling it two-fifths, instead of the more understandable four-tenths. Slimy.