To: TheFrog
Actually no it doesn't
Actually, it does, IF you are referring to the same base number of Americans in the work force from which the 7.2 percent unemployment figure is derived. The media (and many folks) automatically draw the conclusion that if the unemployment figure is 7.2 percent, that means that 7.2 percent of ALL Americans are without a job, which is where the 93 (or 92.7 if one wishes to be precise) percent employment figure comes from and the subsequent conclusion, that 93 percent of all Americans have jobs.
Nothing but semantics.
77 posted on
01/09/2009 8:47:58 AM PST by
mkjessup
("An empty limousine pulled up in front of the White House, and Barack Hussein Obama got out")
To: mkjessup
The statistics here also fail to factor in underemployment.
101 posted on
01/09/2009 11:16:10 AM PST by
Unlikely Hero
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