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Oct. 6th, 2012 10:27 amIn response to the latest jobs report indicating the lowest unemployment rate in years, conservatives have said that the number is inaccurate. That, if we were counting all the people who've given up looking for work, or who are no longer eligible for unemployment, %11 would be a more realistic number than %7.5 or so.
Whether that's a correct argument or not, it seems at least like a valid one. Responses against it from the left that characterize it as an attack on the integrity of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or an instance by the executive branch of cooking the numbers, seem unwarranted. My understanding of the conservative argument is that it is an attack on methodology, and the liberals are responding as if it's an attack on integrity, and it really annoys me.
Am I wrong on this?
Whether that's a correct argument or not, it seems at least like a valid one. Responses against it from the left that characterize it as an attack on the integrity of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or an instance by the executive branch of cooking the numbers, seem unwarranted. My understanding of the conservative argument is that it is an attack on methodology, and the liberals are responding as if it's an attack on integrity, and it really annoys me.
Am I wrong on this?
