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Good morning.....or whatever!

Thanks for the interesting graphs but while the unemployment graph is accurate from '06 to Nov. '08 the next two years reporting is not. Over here we have a reported 10.4% unemployment rate that is phony as hell; it's probably double that with no relief in sight. People on the UI roles are dropping off, state and county workers (the hanger-ons) are on furlough as well as some private industry workers, either furloughed or dropped from full time to part time.

Wish there was a graph on the age demographic of workers that managed to stay employed; it would show the range of 25-55 years. High school and recent college grads can't find a job (so they're not in the reporting) and seniors are nursed and nudged along towards retirement and Social Security.......or robbing their IRAs to get by.

It is the morning...somewhere ;-)

The real unemployment and other numbers have been hidden at least since LBJ. It is reasonable to double the official numbers as kids who have given up and other shadow stats do not shown up.

Here is some goverment stuff, not exactly what you mentioned, but...

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf