Are You Really Unemployed?

Are you really unemployed? I mean, perhaps you don't have a job but that's no guarantee that you're included in the official government statistics. Today we've had another round of confusing job statistics from the USA. Yes, it's difficult to get an accurate snapshot of a huge economy every month, and yes, the figures do eventually get revised to something approximating the truth (although such revisions never make headline news), but even this official truth is designed to paint the rosiest possible picture.

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