[tx_eggman]

Can we please stop accepting the inside-the-beltway premise that unemployed people are not unemployed.

People that have quit looking were removed from the statistics in 1994 - during The Stain's® watch.

[Mere Survival]

Clintons’s administration in addition to what you said of removing those who have “quit looking” from the unemployment number . . . Clinton’s administration also stopped using the Consumer Price Index as the inflation measure so they could save money on automatic increases on entitlements (and so the administration would look better).