{"id":11387,"date":"2012-01-06T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11387"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T19:52:42","slug":"a-few-things-to-add-to-the-unemployment-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11387","title":{"rendered":"A Few Things To Add To The Unemployment Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/06\/unemployment-edges-down-to-8-5-200k-jobs-added\/\">Hot Air<\/a>\u00a0posted an article today on the unemployment numbers released today. Everything is not quite what we are told it is.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Morrissey reports that the numbers are slowly going down&#8211;we are now at 8.5 percent. There is, however, a bit more to the story.<\/p>\n<p>The article points out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The civilian population participation rate hasn\u2019t changed at all from the 64.0% of last month, which remains the lowest level since the Reagan years and which keeps the jobless rate artificially low. The civilian labor force \u2014 all the employed and all those seeking employment \u2014 actually <em>declined<\/em> by 50,000 people since November.\u00a0 However, the U-6 measure of \u201creal\u201d unemployment dropped from 15.6% in November to 15.2% in December, which is the lowest in three years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The economy is improving very slowly. It would improve much more quickly if we began to remove some of the choking regulations from businesses and if we revised our tax code down to one or two pages that were easily understood by average Americans. Hopefully, this year&#8217;s elections will give us leadership that will do that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=91256852-5857-47fe-b567-707bae02d70d\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Morrissey at Hot Air\u00a0posted an article today on the unemployment numbers released today. Everything is not quite what we are told it is. Mr. Morrissey reports that the numbers are slowly going down&#8211;we are now at 8.5 percent. There &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,459,1448,297,1758],"class_list":["post-11387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ed-morrissey","tag-employment","tag-labor-force","tag-unemployment","tag-unemployment-numbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11393,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions\/11393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}