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(CNN Money) Problem: Most Americans don't believe the unemployment rate is 5%
CNN Money ^ | 9-6-2016 | Heather Long

Posted on 09/06/2016 10:01:08 PM PDT by tcrlaf

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To: tcrlaf

I’m still waiting for my Chocolate Ration increase.


21 posted on 09/06/2016 11:21:12 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed FIVE* more People than Three Mile Island. *revised...)
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To: Jack Hammer; All

The numbers have been cooked for years.

People are taken off the list if they give up looking for work.

MBAs delivering pizzas are counted as employed and off the list.

The ‘disability’ rolls are filled up to take people off unemployment lists.

It’s a scam.

94 million out of the work force. Unemployed and underemployed is more like 20% right now.


22 posted on 09/06/2016 11:35:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“Funny how CNN didn’t mention the labor participation rate. Hmmm....”

Right, how many millions have dropped out of the workforce again...?

Aside from that, underemployment is a huge issue. A job at McDonalds isn’t the same as a $100K/year position.

I also still see a lot of small businesses failing. I’m pretty sure the owners aren’t included in unemployment statistics...


23 posted on 09/06/2016 11:38:58 PM PDT by PreciousLiberty (Trump/Pence 2016! Make America Greater Than Ever!)
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To: tcrlaf
Many of the nation's top economic experts say that America is "near full employment."

I can imagine Tokyo Rose broadcasting this.

24 posted on 09/06/2016 11:45:40 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: allendale

That’s pretty much it. Reasonably coherent observers assume that when Hillary’s lips are moving, she’s lying. They only listen to judge the quality of the lie.


25 posted on 09/06/2016 11:46:06 PM PDT by gogeo (Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump.)
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To: tcrlaf

Watch, when Trump get elected all the stats will all of the sudden become realistic again.


26 posted on 09/07/2016 12:38:33 AM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.56)
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To: 9YearLurker

She’s an expensive whore, like almost every other media person in New York.


27 posted on 09/07/2016 12:39:49 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: gitmo

The official unemployment rate measures the gullibility of the public in the area of swallowing obviously fraudulent economic numbers.


28 posted on 09/07/2016 12:44:32 AM PDT by thoughtomator (This message has been encrypted in ROT13 twice for maximum security)
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To: TigerClaws

Actually, probably much closer to 50%.


29 posted on 09/07/2016 1:07:58 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: tcrlaf

Because it isn’t.


30 posted on 09/07/2016 1:13:43 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: tcrlaf
A lot of millennials may actually be lazy, but I know so many in my area that can't find a job that will give them more than 20-25 hours a week. And they can't live on this. My daughter is in college, but it took her sending out forty resumes online, yes resumes not just applications, to find a summer job as a hostess in a restaurant. She began applying in March. At school many students are talking about how they couldn't find a summer job, so they took out more in loans. None of these younger people are counted in the unemployment numbers, and that's just talking about younger people. I guess that's why many wanted Bernie. Desperation. My daughter attended her first college republicans meeting tonight as a matter of fact and said she met the nicest group of kids on the campus. I was proud of her, some her “friends” tried telling her not to go. Many conservative kids, she said she felt at home.
31 posted on 09/07/2016 1:32:16 AM PDT by MacMattico
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To: gitmo

This imaginary “5%” figure is one of many measures in the official report, specifically U-3. Basically, it’s only people getting unemployment checks.

Nobody publishes U-6, which is far more accurate in that it includes people more people who are, how can I put this in layman’s terms, not working. :-)


32 posted on 09/07/2016 2:11:04 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy

Unemployment compensation does not figure into any of the U numbers. So basically, you are incorrect.


33 posted on 09/07/2016 2:23:24 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

“Funny how CNN didn’t mention the labor participation rate. Hmmm....”.........

I have said it many, many times, “You can word a poll any way you want to achieve the desired outcome.” I have literally “zero” faith in polls.


34 posted on 09/07/2016 2:28:06 AM PDT by DaveA37 (t)
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To: 1rudeboy

I’m touched that you still troll me after all these years.


35 posted on 09/07/2016 2:32:14 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy

If you define pointing out your bullcrap as “trolling” in order to make yourself feel intelligent, have at it . . . I plan to be on FR a long time, pushing back the frontier of economic ignorance.


36 posted on 09/07/2016 2:38:18 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: tcrlaf

Unemployment is probably close to that number. Under employment is a better indicator. You still have to pay the bills.


37 posted on 09/07/2016 3:04:03 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: tcrlaf
Here within the KS City metro, I have only to look around me as I pass through the business district and see all the buildings bearing for sale-or-rent and closed signs all around me during business hours to see what the true economic conditions are. And its not pretty like the administration's officials want me to think or believe.

What I see tells me our economy is in terrible shape no matter what CNN wants me to think.

38 posted on 09/07/2016 3:14:08 AM PDT by egfowler3 (What was it I was going to say here anyway?? Anyone care to remind me?)
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To: tcrlaf
Stupid peasants don't believe that their chocolate ration has increased to 25 grams, either.

Very well, we will increase it to 20, and the floggings will continue until morale improves.

39 posted on 09/07/2016 3:20:21 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

>>Funny how CNN didn’t mention the labor participation rate. Hmmm....

The media never does. The Globalist Progressive Republicans never do. The Anti-Colonialist Progressive Democrats never do.


40 posted on 09/07/2016 3:24:03 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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