May 17, 2017
There is no truly good way to measure unemployment, which makes
it pretty easy for successive administrations to claim that
unemployment is consistently improving. But when we do our level
best to include all of the unemployed in the numbers, what we learn
is that unemployment levels now are higher than they were at the
beginning of the Great Recession. That’s the bad news. The good
news is that things actually have been getting better over time. In
this week’s episode, James and Antony take a look at the actual
unemployment numbers to get to the bottom of what they really
mean.
Get the facts here:
https://fee.org/articles/you-cant-trust-unemployment-statistics/