Our friends at PBS may be right if we assume massive policy shifts on the state and federal levels. We've been having some progress at times in specific sectors but progress since for more 'house-cleaning' has seemed no better than spotty. On unemployment, this is the part we can know for sure--
![](http://peteann.net/econ/jobless1564now.png)
--and we can only hope PBS is right about the next four years.