They present out select figures that they feel best support, and exclude the others. Ask yourself, what figures are really missing, or what is not described by the babble in numbers. Are plenty of people living in affordable situations? Are plenty of people working at a job with decent pay? Are plenty of people working some holiday season packing job just to scrap what little bucks they can on a crazy shift? As I have come to find, saying employment doesn’t do the situation in the economy any justice. Simply mentioning the total size of the economy also doesn’t say much because how different is the holiday surge from other years, or is it not significantly different. The big facts that plenty of these economic reports rely is on you not coming up with questions that the data doesn’t answer.
When Bush was in office they called them, ‘McJobs”, that’s a term you don’t hear anymore.