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Unemployment figures have been purged of many, many people that just gave up working in COVID. And given the political importance of unemployment figures there
by AtlasBarfed 3y ago
Unemployment figures have been purged of many, many people that just gave up working in COVID.
And given the political importance of unemployment figures there is probably a great deal of additional manipulations the government does on them as it approaches election year.
- ianburrell 3y agoThe U6 unemployment rate that counts discouraged workers is way down from the peak of pandemic and back to previous values. All the unemployment numbers are at historically low values. Large numbers of people who left workforce for pandemic have come back.