http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/distress-index-updated/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/anything-peaceful/distress-index-updated/comment-page-1/#comment-21988 Billll Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:20:22 +0000 http://www.feeblog.org/?p=1737#comment-21988 The methodology for calculating the unemployment rate has been "adjusted" repeatedly to make one administration or another look better. If you use the current U-6 number of 17%, the index is driven considerably up. A change in methodology only a few months ago caused a .5 decrease in unemployment even though there was no apparent actual hiring going on. The methodology for calculating the unemployment rate has been “adjusted” repeatedly to make one administration or another look better. If you use the current U-6 number of 17%, the index is driven considerably up. A change in methodology only a few months ago caused a .5 decrease in unemployment even though there was no apparent actual hiring going on.

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