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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (44875)8/16/2010 7:13:57 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 71588
 
How can employment and the unemployment rate both be falling at the same time?

Because we measure unemployment as a percentage of the workforce not the population, and the workforce fell. The later fact is itself a bad thing, but its a separate bad thing, not part of the unemployment rate.