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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

A Big Oops in the Government Unemployment Numbers

When the May jobs report came out with 2.5 million jobs added a drop in unemployment to 13.3%, I told several friends the numbers seemed implausible. It appears I might have been right. The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics survey takers mistakenly misclassified about 4.9 million people as employed, although they were unemployed. […]

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