You would have thought the Trump administration would publish the ACTUAL, FACTUAL unemployment numbers in order to show how destructive Obomination's disastrous economic policies were over the kast eight years and how rapidly President Trump's economic policies are working to turn around and recover employment and the economy.
Instead, the American people are still being fed LIES concerning the real state of the economy and "unemployment figures". It is disgraceful.
This allows him to show small meaningful gains.
In time the overall numbers will improve.
Well, they can’t just drop the lying numbers and pick up the factual numbers because the shock of going from, say, 4.6% to 10-ish would throw a serious curve into the populace. They would not care that the method of measurement was different, that it was based on something other than unemployment claims.
So my approach would be to go back 20-30 years and publish BOTH or ALL unemployment calculations in parallel, just 2 or 3 separate columns on the same chart. You need to teach people that there are more accurate ways to calculate unemployment before you produce a number that looks terribly bad in comparison to the rosy picture that the government has been painting for the last several years.