re: #556 Mattand

Interesting. I’m still having a hard time believing the article, as the only other place I hear those unemployment numbers is from the idiots at Fox.

So either:

1) Fox and IBT are right, and the feds are lying about the true unemployment rate

2) Fox and IBT are full of shit.

We know why Fox would publish numbers like that if #2 is correct; I don’t know what IBT’s motive is (and no, I’m not buying “It’s just a mistake.”)

There is supposedly a “hidden unemployment rate” that includes all workers who aren’t counted in the official unemployment stats because they have “given up in despair” or gone back to school or started their own business or retired or died.