{"id":21937,"date":"2014-02-18T06:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T11:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21937"},"modified":"2014-02-18T09:29:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T14:29:50","slug":"about-those-unemployment-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21937","title":{"rendered":"About Those Unemployment Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Crudele at the New York Post<\/a> has done a number of stories about fraud in the reporting of the unemployment numbers. He posted a story yesterday about the Congressional investigations into this fraud, including an investigation by the House Oversight Committee<\/a> and Congress\u2019 Joint Economic Committee<\/a>. He adds that he is also investigating. He is currently waiting for the Commerce Department<\/a> to comply with a Freedom of Information Act<\/a> request he has filed for e-mails and text messages between people in the Philadelphia<\/a> Census office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

At the core of all these investigations is solid evidence that at least one surveyor \u2014 a guy named Julius Buckmon, working out of the Philadelphia Census office but polling in Washington, DC \u2014 submitted fake household surveys that were used in compiling the Labor Department<\/a>\u2019s unemployment rate.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because of the scientific nature of the Labor Department survey, Buckmon\u2019s actions alone would have affected the responses of some 500,000 households.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But as I\u2019ve been reporting, the scam was allegedly much larger than that and included other surveyors (or enumerators as they are called) over many years. And supervisors at least two levels up are said to have known about \u2014 and covered up \u2014 the scandal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What the investigators are looking for is that the unemployment numbers were falsified so that they would drop just before the 2012 election. In fact, the unemployment rate did drop before the election.<\/p>\n

This is a chart from trading economics.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"United<\/p>\n

Before you get too excited over the fact that unemployment may be dropping, you need to take a look at the labor force participation rate<\/a>. When people stop looking for jobs, they are no longer counted as unemployed. Therefore, as the number of people who are working drops, the unemployment rate drops. That is not the way it should be, but it is the way it is. The chart below from the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a> shows what has happened to our labor force participation rate since 2009:<\/p>\n

\"laborparticipationrate2014\"<\/a>Regardless of whether or not there is fraud involved, our current unemployment numbers are very misleading. Please follow the link above to the New York Post to hear the rest of the story. There is a smoking gun. Unfortunately, the person in charge at the time is claiming that he never saw it.<\/p>\n

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