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  • True Unemployment Is 13.6 Percent as High Rate ‘Becoming Permanent’

    11/06/2013 11:09:09 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 14 replies
    Moneynews ^ | Wednesday, 06 Nov 2013 09:32 AM | Peter Morici
    The Labor Department on Friday is expected to report the economy added 120,000 jobs in October, below the 148,000 recorded in September and the trend for months prior. … Adding discouraged adults, who have quit looking for work altogether, and part-timers who want full-time employment, the unemployment rate is 13.6 percent. Even with more full-time positions, the pace of jobs creation is well short of the estimated 360,000 needed each month to lower unemployment to 6 percent over three years. That pace would require GDP growth in the range of 4 percent to 5 percent. … The increased cost and...
  • Fox News: True unemployment figure is 15.8%

    01/14/2012 11:38:02 AM PST · by pabianice · 25 replies · 2+ views
    Fox News Channel (no link) | 1/14/12
    On Fox. If discouraged workers* are counted, unemployment percentage is 15.8%. Further, if economy starts to look better and these discouraged workers get back into trying to find jobs, official joblessness figure will also jump. * people who have stopped looking for work after their unemployment checks have stopped