{"id":2675,"date":"2007-01-06T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2007-01-06T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T17:54:00","slug":"lies-damn-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2007\/01\/06\/13\/54\/lies-damn-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Lies, Damn Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autodogmatic.com\/index.php\/sst\/2007\/01\/06\/p419\">The latest [US] BLS employment situation report states 4.5% unemployment, and 167,000 jobs created in December &#8230; the headline &#8220;unemployment&#8221; number we see every month isn&#8217;t the unemployment number &#8212; it&#8217;s one of many, in a creative hierarchy introduced circa 1995.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td>Headline unemployment<\/td>\n<td>4.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Unemployed+discouraged<\/td>\n<td>4.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The above+marginal<\/td>\n<td>5.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Above+part time<\/td>\n<td>8.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>What if we were to actually count [criminal justice inductees] as unemployed?<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td>Headline unemployment<\/td>\n<td>4.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Headline+prison population<\/td>\n<td>5.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Headline+all corrections<\/td>\n<td>9.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>All-unempl.+prison pop.<\/td>\n<td>9.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>All-unempl.+all corr.<\/td>\n<td>12.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest [US] BLS employment situation report states 4.5% unemployment, and 167,000 jobs created in December &#8230; the headline &#8220;unemployment&#8221; number we see every month isn&#8217;t the unemployment number &#8212; it&#8217;s one of many,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}