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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Censorship coming
  • Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:52:05 -0800

You'll be happy to know that the government no longer uses unemployment figures from each state. Nor do they use IRS figures (numbers from the quarterly reports employers are required to turn in). What they do now is use the CPS (Current Population Survey). That translates into them doing a 60,000 household survey. They use a 2,025 georgraphic area sampling created by the Census Bureau. Every month 25% of the households are changed out. Each household is interviewed for 4 consecutive months. They are again interviewed again 8 months later.

Now, how's that for accurate information? Oh, and did I mention that you are paying for "2,200 highly trained and experienced Census Bureau employees" to do these surveys?

Using the old method of determining unemployment you need to add between 5% and 10% to the current number.

Plus, neither the old method, nor the new method takes into account the self-employed.

Lynda
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley

----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Walton" <waltonrp AT gmail.com>


I agree on the unemployment numbers, but is there a web site or something
that can explain the difference in the measure?

If we are tottering on 20%, that is a near Great Depression number.

Rob - Va
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