Americans think the unemployment rate is 32 percent

Vox ^ | November 15, 2014 | Danielle Kurtzleben

[2ndDivisionVet]

Probably because it feels like Great Depression 2.0

[SkyPilot]

All I see at the super markets are EBT, Social Security recipients, and unemployment checks. Someone tell me I am wrong.

[txrefugee]

When every family has someone who is unemployed, they don’t believe the lying government.

[ealgeone]

The public is smarter than the obomites admit.

[rockrr]

Where’s Øbongo to tell us that we’re not the unemployed that we thought we were?

[JRandomFreeper]

The 'official' rate isn't the 'actual' rate, like the author assumes.

/johnny

[Bayard]

You see...here’s the problem, those number crunchers have cooked the books so often for their masters and overlords no one believes anything they say.

There’s a massive credibility issue in studies like this.

[Huskrrrr]

America is waking up.

[ThunderSleeps]

One look at the labor force participation rate (not the artificially lowered unemployment rate) ... or a look at the record numbers on welfare ... and well, I can’t say you’re wrong.

[Bryanw92]

Because the Unemployment Rate is pure BS and always has been.

[kaehurowing]

I would say here it is around 25%.

[dfwgator]

What is the “Underemployment” rate?

[2ndDivisionVet]

They say 12%, but I doubt if that is even near the truth.

[jospehm20]

Yes it does. Makes me wonder what the numbers would be if the feds did not cook the books.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Where you is at?

[RightGeek]

http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts

[PAR35]

Unemployment rates are more than twice the number put out by the feds. Same for inflation.

The books are being cooked in Washington.

[dfwgator]

Here’s a term that the media has never used since Obama has been in the White House, “McJobs.”

[ClearCase_guy]

Another side of the coin would be salary increases. A lot of people do have jobs -- and feel fortunate to have those jobs -- but have not seen any sort of raise in years.

When jobs are scarce, salaries rise. How much has your salary been rising?

[RetiredTexasVet]

We are in a depression. The reason why the government started adding “transfer payments” (welfare and other gov’t giveaways) and other “newly conceived” items into the GDP calculations was to prevent the GDP from going negative. If you adjusted their figures to back out the newly created items the GDP would be negative for the last year and reflect the Depression.