>The incentive for politicians to prop themselves up with the unemployment rate is clear. One of the funny things is when Trump ran in 2016 a big part of his c

>The incentive for politicians to prop themselves up with the unemployment rate is clear. One of the funny things is when Trump ran in 2016 a big part of his campaign was acknowledging the fact that the unemployment numbers were a lie and being fudged. He made major promises, which I am sure appealed to a lot of people, he would shine a light on the unemployed workers who were not counted in the workforce...of course, then he got elected and began taking credit for the best unemployment numbers ever using the same accounting methods.