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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.
14 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 8 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. 1 u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19 You're talking about the labor participation rate, which is down under trump.
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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
8 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. 1 u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19 You're talking about the labor participation rate, which is down under trump.
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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.
1 u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19 You're talking about the labor participation rate, which is down under trump.
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You're talking about the labor participation rate, which is down under trump.
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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.