Showing posts with label Unemloyment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unemloyment. Show all posts

Saturday, February 4, 2012

The Devil is in the Details

While yesterday's headlines read that unemployment dropped to 8.3% (still .5% higher than when Barack Obama took office), a closer look at the details reveals this was partly a result of the civilian labor force tumbling "to a fresh 30 year low of 63.7% . . . . "  Should Barack Obama and the media really be trumpeting this as good news?