You mean the gummint is lying? Say it ain't so

The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton explains why, "The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie." Here's why: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job -- if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks -- the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed.



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