The government’s unemployment figures are always much lower than what Gallop hears from real people they poll. I think Clifton’s comments are an attempt to explain why so many are fed up with the government and its media propaganda wing. The game is rigged to enrich and perpetuate the 1%, in and out of government. Clifton knows it. We know it. Things will not change without drastic action.
Even The New York Times admitted Trump was right: If we count the unemployed, underemployed and those who have simply given up looking for work — which the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not — 40.4 percent of Americans were unemployed as of January 2016.
And when the number of wage earners goes down, so do household incomes.