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There are 1,000,000 different ways to measure unemployment, and the popular ones stop counting people who have been unemployed for some amount of time and count
by shrimp_emoji 2y ago
There are 1,000,000 different ways to measure unemployment, and the popular ones stop counting people who have been unemployed for some amount of time and count 3 part-time jobs keeping someone afloat as 3 jobs. Sooo yeah. :D All the unemployment numbers are essentially fake.
The article itself notes this as though in uncertain self-reflection: "And the number of people collecting weekly jobless benefits has risen to three-year high"