FuzzNJ wrote:I know right? Like somehow the Democrats are able to change the way it's calculated based on who is president, a real conspiracy. So silly, like most of the right's arguments.
It s not just the Rs. The Ds make the same argument. It has much more to do with which party the numbers favor- kind of like the "in's v. the out's.
No measure of "unemployment" will be precise. Changing definitions leads to faulty analysis when comparing the numbers under one definition against another definition. That just doesn't cut it with me.
Unemployment and underemployment are two different things. Hell, underemployment, in and of itself, is at least two different things- those only working part time who used to work full time and those working for less pay/income than they previously were.
All that I know is that here in Orlando, prospective employers the "want ads" have been slowly growing each week to month; wages for certain kinds of work are increasing slowly (as opposed to decreasing) and home re-sales are picking up albeit for much less than before the boom. Tourism is up and people's confidence in the economy are cautiously and slowly improving.
On the other hand, we know families with professional earners who are moving out of state as they finally obtain new jobs. Perhaps that is part of why, we just received reports of local unemployment dropping bellow 10% since the First Quarter of '08...
