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<\/a><\/a>With labor force participation rates near a 40-year low, there is no real reason to believe unemployment will be under 11% anytime soon.<\/p>\n
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This is part of a continuing series on the under-reporting of unemployment in the United States of America.<\/i><\/p>\n
Past posts<\/b> (months indicate the month being analyzed – the post is in the month following): *My initial analyses led to a slight over-reporting of the impact of the reporting gap, so the assessments in these posts are inflated, as explained and corrected in the December 2013 analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Usually these days, when the media reports “unemployment was flat, but job growth was sluggish,” you all know how to translate that by now. It means that unemployment actually ticked up through people leaving the labor force, but the BLS has ways of carefully ensuring that’s invisible to the public. It’s just like their repeated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,41],"tags":[5,76],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-the-life","category-its-the-stupid-economy","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-its-the-stupid-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluepyramid.org\/storey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFebruary 2015<\/a>
\nDecember 2014 – labor force participation assessment<\/a>
\nDecember 2014<\/a>
\nNovember 2014<\/a>
\nOctober 2014 – age assessment<\/a>
\nOctober 2014<\/a>
\nSeptember 2014<\/a>
\nAugust 2014<\/a>
\nApril 2014<\/a>
\nDecember 2013 – seasonal assessment<\/a>
\nDecember 2013<\/a>
\nMarch 2013*<\/a>
\nAugust 2012*<\/a>
\nJuly 2012* – age assessment<\/a>
\nJuly 2012*<\/a><\/p>\n