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It’s An Illusion: Here Are the REAL Unemployment Numbers
Submitted by Melinda L. Secor on Sun, 2014-05-04 00:00
"Contrarian economist John Williams suggests that the government’s numbers are not even close. At his web site ShadowStats.com Williams calculates the rate of employment using the same methods that were used prior to 1994 when they were officially defined out of existence by bureaucrats looking to pad the numbers. According to those numbers, we’re looking at an unemployment rate of over 23%."
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