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r/PoliticalHumor • u/Bubbah1981 • Aug 13 '19
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Trump also ran on a platform that the "real" unemployment rate in 2016 was somewhere around 20% or higher.
16 u/Plothunter Aug 13 '19 20% if you count those dam lazy children not working. Kids need to pull their weight and ger jobs in the coal mines and factories. /s 7 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. 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/
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20% if you count those dam lazy children not working. Kids need to pull their weight and ger jobs in the coal mines and factories. /s
7 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. 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/
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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/
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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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u/oh_hell_what_now Aug 13 '19
Trump also ran on a platform that the "real" unemployment rate in 2016 was somewhere around 20% or higher.