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Inquiring minds note a huge discrepancy between Gallup measured unemployment and BLS reported unemployment.

Gallup says "Because results are not seasonally adjusted, they are not directly comparable to numbers reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which are based on workers 16 and older. Margin of error is ±1 percentage point."

However, the BLS maintains both seasonally-adjusted data and non-adjusted data. Gallup data is comparable (or at least should be) to BLS unadjusted data.


Unemployment Rate comparison

BLS: 7.0%
Gallup: 8.9%

The non-seasonally adjusted Civilian Labor Force is 154.381 million. Thus, the 1.9 percentage point difference in the unemployment rate equates to about 2.93 million employees.

Something is wrong with at least one of the above data series.

Read more at http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/#qY4voYZWr13s6aFz.99