Real Unemployment Statistics from Shadowstats.com. . .
Alternate Unemployment Charts
The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers.
The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.
Can anyone else see a trend here? It pretty much sums up the economy in the United States of America. But we most assuredly need those illegal immigrants to fill our streets and get offered those field worker positions to keep the food pumping into the systems that feed those who are on welfare. You all know by now. . .the 50 million plus families that are food stamp recipients.
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