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livetohike

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Sat Apr-03-04 11:34 AM
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5. The media should interview an "expert"

on the real job numbers. For example, the rise in the unemployment percentage is the number of persons collecting unemployment benefits. I actually heard some "expert" state that the rate went up because people are looking for jobs again after being out of the market. This is not so. The jobless number is only representative of those persons actually collecting an unemployment check. No one is counting the number of persons whose benefits have expired.

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