I didn’t tout them as the end all and be all. I asked if you have other numbers that contradict them. I offered two different sources. Put up or shut up.
“If they have all the jobs and food they want - why are they coming here?”
Maybe because they want to take advantage of the lopsided monetary situation in order to let their families back in Mexico, Ecuador, and Guatemala live like kings? Didn’t you ever wonder why every currency exchange has big signs saying “ENVIOS A MEXICO”? Most of them are sending money back, draining it out of our economy.
The only thing I could find to bring into question the Mexican reported unemployment rate was something from Wikipedia, and the footnote was a dead link. Kind of like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
It was a discussion of the methodology employed to do the calculation, and it did not appear to be quite as mathematically rigorous as the methodology employed here. It was compared to a Gallup poll. It certainly does not appear to be an apples to apples comparison.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1153/is_n11_v117/ai_16040951/
This article is not new by any stretch, but it does discuss some of the differences in the way unemployment is calculated differently in the 2 countries.