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300K+ and a lot of the jobs this month were food service jobs that were lost in Sept. from the hurricanes. The unemployment number is a joke and I

Posted by Krusty (aka krustylu) Nov 3 '17, 07:06

don't know why we give it so much credence.

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It’s not a joke, it just measures one particular dimension. There’s no single measure taken by itself that provides the whole picture. -- nm* - znufrii Nov 3, 07:11
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- I think it's giving people a false sense of the actual situation. - Krusty Nov 3, 07:11 5
  - U-6 is down to 7.9% -- nm - znufrii Nov 3, 07:31
  - It’s also only one of like a half dozen metrics they provide. - mafic Nov 3, 07:31 1
    - My issue is they only discuss one number and rarely if ever report the others. I'd like to see a more true picture of the situation and - Krusty Nov 3, 07:36
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    - I want a more truthful number that doesn't leave out so many people that aren't working. - Krusty Nov 3, 07:35

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