[SoFloFreeper]

Elizabeth does a decent job of showing how, basically, Obama and most of the (never curious) media are lying to Americans.

[Principled]

Here it is:

...the unemployment rate “rises to 14.5% if you factor back in those who’ve stopped looking for work but would re-enter if there were jobs, as well as part-time workers who would prefer full-time positions.

[Uncle Miltie]

"For 59 out of the last 60 weeks, the weekly jobless numbers have been revised, after the fact, always in the same direction: higher."

What are the odds that the numbers aren't cooked? That's calculable. The numbers ought to be revised either higher or lower at a 50% / 50% rate. Any single number greater or lesser than 50% has a 50% chance of being randomly generated.

So, if I recall my statistics correctly, we can do the following:

Throw out the one correction that was lower with one of the corrections that was higher. That leaves us with 58 corrections all in one direction. If each of those corrections, like the toss of a coin, has a 50% chance of turning up heads ("higher"), then we can multiply 50% by itself 58 times. I'll let my spreadsheet do the work:

Ah yes. Here are the odds that 58 corrections all happen in the same direction are by chance:

0.0000000000000003469%