Is the US Government lying to you about unemployment

This is what full employment looks like.

 

When I was born, President Truman was President, then we had Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 44, Clinton, Bush 46, and Obama.  First, they have two things in common; they had at least one term as President. Second, they used unemployment figures to lie about who was employed and how many had permanent jobs.

In the late 1960s, it seemed like everyone who wanted a good job had a good job. In the small towns around Pittsburgh, the streets and shops where so crowded that people had trouble walking. In the 1970s, they started shutting down the mills and good jobs went away. I was walking down the street in Pittsburgh one day in the early 1980s and noticed a man behind the bushes. He was the first homeless person that I ever saw. I thought homelessness was a thing of the past. Through the 1980s to the present, I saw this homeless  population grow while the unemployment rate fell.

Now the unemployment rate is below 6%.  However, I see the homeless. I see the underemployed and I see record numbers of people going to food banks to eat.  This is why we see more and more people distrusting the political people working for the government. Click on the picture or on the link below. They are different but give the same message.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE6GCxuF7Og

 

The US unemployment official figure, a big bold lie

 

Published on October 3, 2014

There is an actual distortion of the real conditions involving employment in the US. In many cases, they do not count people who are underemployed. Besides, unemployed means those who are actively seeking work.

Unemployment figures released by the US government are constantly underplayed and next month, they're constantly revised upwards. The official figures are as credible as the WMDs in Iraq. They're clearly wrong.

As the Obama administration raves about creating jobs and reducing the unemployment rate, the unreported truth is that Employment-to-population ratio is now lower than during the worst of the 2007-09 recession.

For all the positivity about the April jobs report-the U.S. job market remains dismal. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: Just 58.6 percent of American civilians aged 16 and up had jobs in April. That's a lower employment-to-population ratio than during the worst of the 2007-09 recession.

Even though the jobless rate has fallen, millions of people aren't counted as unemployed because they've stopped looking for work, or never started. The situation is far worse for African Americans, Latinos, and other minorities.