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1 posted on 01/15/2013 2:03:23 AM PST by Brown Deer
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To: Brown Deer

Learned many years ago to take what the government says with a grain of salt, then it may be true.


3 posted on 01/15/2013 2:30:26 AM PST by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: Brown Deer
While these are the actual figures, take comfort we are not using the EUs figures which would be double for the unemployment rate.

The truth is that it is now easier for the government to retire workers with social security benefits and other public assistance who are older or non-productive and make openings for the younger people. The real crisis is that older folks will find it harder to work, ever again. The young will eventually obtain some type of employment.

It should be a Republican/Conservative initiative to limit employment at non-profits, these types of employee(s) are really just adding welfare type jobs to donations; charity should not become a major employer for liberal causes - and for conservative causes become extinct....

6 posted on 01/15/2013 2:56:44 AM PST by Jumper
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To: Brown Deer

obambi has got his wish; we are now a third world country. With unemployment this high, riots are inevitable. Look at Greece, Spain and Argentia to see what’s coming.


8 posted on 01/15/2013 4:16:16 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Brown Deer

I collect unemployment figures for them, people are begging for more hours, ie: to REALLY be EMPLOYED.


10 posted on 01/15/2013 4:42:57 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Brown Deer

P.S. if you work ONE HOUR in the ‘week’ that is calculated, EVEN BABYSITTING (which they specifically say), you are ‘employed.


11 posted on 01/15/2013 4:46:15 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: Brown Deer

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13 posted on 01/15/2013 5:02:39 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: Brown Deer

Just a reminder. After four entire years Obama has the reported unemployment rate right back where it was when he tok office. That is hardly what I call a recovery.


14 posted on 01/15/2013 5:02:49 AM PST by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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To: Brown Deer

Even these numbers are far too low.

To get a true picture, you need to look at the “Labor Participation Rate”, which is not buried under layers of lies.

Plenty of people who have no job skills also get declared as ‘disabled’, so they play the system for money.

Able bodied people of working age who are employed is now below 64%. That means a greater than 35% unemployment rate.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000


17 posted on 01/15/2013 5:50:50 AM PST by Bon mots (Abu Ghraib: 47 Times on the front page of the NY Times | Benghazi: 2 Times)
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To: Brown Deer
Read Actually, The Unemployment Ratio Is 41%. Also read Civilian Employment-Population Ratio (EMRATIO) Updated: 2013-01-04 8:33 AM CST.
22 posted on 01/15/2013 7:21:38 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Brown Deer

about right. bookmark.


23 posted on 01/15/2013 8:30:41 AM PST by dadfly (ill)
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To: Brown Deer

It’s not higher than those numbers? Even those seem a little low.


25 posted on 01/15/2013 12:29:14 PM PST by wastedyears (Obama and Democrats to Republicans: "LOL!")
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To: Brown Deer

I ran some numbers off the BLS site (wish I could find the post I put together on it).

But the upshot is that the official unemployment rate is way low, just by comparing what they call the workforce (static) vs. population (growing).


26 posted on 01/15/2013 12:45:31 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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