Failed Economic Policies and Rising Unemployment in the United States of Americaby Bob ChapmanGlobal Research Oct. 13, 2009 |
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This past week the BLS released the September unemployment statistics and they worsened as usual, as America enjoys its recovery. U-1–Those unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force was 5.4%. U-2-Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the labor force was 6.8%. U-3-Total unemployed, as a percentage of the civilian labor force, the official unemployment rate, 9.8%. U-4-Discouraged workers 10.2%. U-5-Total unemployed plus discharged workers, plus marginally attached workers 11.1%. U-6-Total unemployed as a percent of the civilian labor force 17%. If the birth/death ratio is removed, U-6 is in reality 21.3% total US unemployment. The estimate is that 824,000, more jobs may be extracted from the payroll count for the 12-months ended next March. Such a revision would be the biggest since 1991. The BLS is underestimating job losses deliberately and has been for a long time. That would mean September’s loss would be some 300,000 not 263,000. Such a revision would put job losses not at 4.8 million but 5.6 million jobs. This is how government has operated for some time and will continue to as long as we allow them too. ...Continued |