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- From: sbradley@scic.intel.com (Seth Bradley)
- Subject: Re: Bush team said to skew latest economic-growth data
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.183456.19709@scic.intel.com>
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- Organization: Intel Corporation
- References: <Bxo2BM.7nu@mail.boi.hp.com> <1992Nov14.003819.10859@swbatl.sbc.com> <1992Nov16.171504.17347@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:34:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.171504.17347@pony.Ingres.COM> reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux) writes:
- >I don't care about the media ... what nobody tells you is that people
- >who have given up and stopped looking for work, or who have been
- >unemployed so long that they no longer receive unemployment
- >compensation are *not* *counted* in the statistics. The statistics are
- >for unemployment insurance claims, *not* the total number of
- >unemployed people who want jobs.
-
- Not quite true. There are actually seven unemployment numbers (U-1 through
- U-7) and one of those numbers _does_ included those who have given up looking
- for work. The one the media most often reports on does not, however. I
- found this out while doing some research for a paper. If anyone wants to
- know the definitions for the 7 figures, I could post it.
-
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- Seth J. Bradley, Senior System Administrator, Intel SCIC
- Internet: sbradley@scic.intel.com UUCP: uunet!scic.intel.com!sbradley
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- "A system admin's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over
- Emergency Room doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other
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- of their own innards!" -Michael O'Brien
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