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- From: reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux)
- Subject: Re: Bush team said to skew latest economic-growth data
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.171504.17347@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: reb@Ingres.COM (Phydeaux)
- Organization: E 4th St Home For The Overeducated Underemployed - Chicago Div.
- References: <1992Nov5.011738.29551@cs.ucla.edu> <Bxo2BM.7nu@mail.boi.hp.com> <1992Nov14.003819.10859@swbatl.sbc.com>
- Distribution: alt
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:15:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.003819.10859@swbatl.sbc.com> cp7927@oktext.UUCP (Caryn S. Prater) writes:
- >In article <Bxo2BM.7nu@mail.boi.hp.com> hypes@boi.hp.com (Gary Hypes) writes:
- >>The last two economic reports on Jobless claims -- both post-election --
- >>have continued to show decreasing jobless claims. And these are not
- >>particularly hot employment months.
- >Is this because fewer people are losing their jobs or fewer people
- >have jobs to lose? Are these first time claims? And, isn't it
- >funny how when things were bright and rosey Bush had no problem
- >with the media? To tell you the truth I'm getting pretty sick and
-
- 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.
- reb
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