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To: TimF who wrote (51519)	3/3/2008 8:54:32 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543145

So I'm not sure of any good stat to measure "reduced/under" employment. Well, if the stats exist, they should still be used. "Wanting" or "not wanting" can both be affected by how the worker views the job or job market. A former GM factor worker might well "not want" to clerk at WalMart, either full or part time. But if one wanted to honestly look at POSSIBLE impact of trade on American employment, then computing normalised full-time equivalent employment as well as normalised (to the full US population) inflation adjusted worker income and plotting both of those along with normalised (to GDP??) foreign trade would be a good start. There may well be better ones which you might think of, but there are also much worse ones, such as what I suspect the original quoted article referenced. Neither Government reports or places like CATO should engage in what is borderline deception, although I'm sure they would at worse consider it "spin".