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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (513023)12/19/2003 12:54:11 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Closer to "8.9%" if you add back in the officially classified "unemployed, discouraged, and no-longer actively looking for work" people --- referenced in the appendix of the Labor Department stats.

Pretty easy to keep a nice, low, appealing 'headline number' if you change the definitions so as to remove large chunks of unemployed from the 'official definition'....
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