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pinqy Donating Member (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-30-09 12:33 PM
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24. Way to not let the truth get in the way.
Why on Earth are they lying and saying people with a part time job who looked for full time are not employed or unemployed?

As for "how they calculated unemployment 80 years ago," they guessed their asses off. There were no surveys or official calculations. They didn't even have definitions for unemployed. The numbers cited for the unemployment rates of the 20's and 30's are estimates first published in 1948.
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