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Jobless Numbers, is Yahoo.com lying? (Conflicting Stories) Links inside
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Posted on 09/30/2009 3:29:33 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour

Here is the links to two different stories posted by Yahoo.com Financial News One written by CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, AP Economics Writer The other by Lisa Lambert of Reuters One claims job losses were up in August, the other claims job losses were down. I've grown more and more skeptical of all these jobs numbers and economic indices that everyone keeps flinging around the room like handfuls of poop. So my question is this, who's lying here?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arenotis; badlink; herearethelinks; missinglink
Jobless rates drop in most metro areas in August http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_metro_unemployment

Jobless rates rise in all U.S. cities in August http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090930/bs_nm/us_usa_economy_unemployment_cities

1 posted on 09/30/2009 3:29:34 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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Jobless rates drop in most metro areas in August

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090930/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/us_metro_unemployment

Jobless rates rise in all U.S. cities in August

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090930/bs_nm/us_usa_economy_unemployment_cities

2 posted on 09/30/2009 3:30:22 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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Can someone make these links hot, I give up...


3 posted on 09/30/2009 3:30:48 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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Can someone make these links hot, I give up...

Jobless rates drop in most metro areas in August

Jobless rates rise in all U.S. cities in August

How's that?

4 posted on 09/30/2009 3:33:57 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!)
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Thanks!


5 posted on 09/30/2009 3:34:10 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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Jobless Rates Drop

Jobless Rates Rise

6 posted on 09/30/2009 3:34:44 PM PDT by Enterprise (When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
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Jobless rates drop in most metro areas in August

Jobless rates rise in all U.S. cities in August

7 posted on 09/30/2009 3:36:37 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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The sun rises in the East and sets in the West.

The sun rises in the West and sets in the East.

Choose reality or delusion.

That appears to be Yahoo’s message here.


8 posted on 09/30/2009 3:40:04 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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It’s not yahoo lying. They are just posting stories from AP and Reuters. Might be one of them lying.


9 posted on 09/30/2009 3:40:38 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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The actual rate is around 16.7 percent unemployed, this figure includes those who have stopped looking, which used to be counted before Obama.


10 posted on 09/30/2009 3:45:19 PM PDT by stockpirate ("I came NOT to bring peace but a sword." - Jesus Christ)
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There was less of more so therefore that proves that the media is a bunch of lying scumbags that exist solely to do the bidding of the Zero or else they will be called uncivil racists prone to killing gays.


11 posted on 09/30/2009 3:45:54 PM PDT by crazyhorse691 (Now that the libs are in power dissent is not only unpatriotic, but, it is also racist.)
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So my question is this, who's lying here?

Well the "official" rate is down compared to July, but up compared to August a year ago.
So there really isn't any inconsistancy between the two articles.

However, that doesn't mean that the "official" figures aren't being fudged.
The government's been playing games with the stats ever since politicians got spanked by the "Misery Index" back in '80.
They fudge the inflation calculations as well.

So the actual lies are buried very, very deep.

Actual unemployment is higher than reported.

12 posted on 09/30/2009 3:46:48 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!)
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It’s not yahoo lying. They are just posting stories from AP and Reuters. Might be one of them lying.

Now that is a real mystery, how could only one of them be lying?

13 posted on 09/30/2009 3:46:52 PM PDT by Taxbilly
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