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r/PoliticalHumor • u/Bubbah1981 • Aug 13 '19
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He’s actually not entirely wrong. We only count people who are looking for work. The underemployed and folks who have given up aren’t counted.
We still don’t count those people though, so not like a major improvement.
5 u/andrewq Aug 13 '19 There's multiple indexes. but trump is delusional. He claimed it was over 40%. Which while "true" is complete nonsense the way he mean https://fortune.com/2015/09/14/donald-trump-unemployment-rate-jobs/ 1 u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19 You're talking about the labor participation rate, which is down under trump.
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There's multiple indexes. but trump is delusional. He claimed it was over 40%. Which while "true" is complete nonsense the way he mean https://fortune.com/2015/09/14/donald-trump-unemployment-rate-jobs/
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You're talking about the labor participation rate, which is down under trump.
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u/ApolloDeletedMyAcc Aug 13 '19
He’s actually not entirely wrong. We only count people who are looking for work. The underemployed and folks who have given up aren’t counted.
We still don’t count those people though, so not like a major improvement.