By Warner Todd Huston —— Bio and Archives February 5, 2015
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Right now, we're hearing much celebrating from the media, the White House and Wall Street about how unemployment is "down" to 5.6%. The cheerleading for this number is deafening. The media loves a comeback story, the White House wants to score political points and Wall Street would like you to stay in the market. None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job--if you are so hopelessly out of work that you've stopped looking over the past four weeks--the Department of Labor doesn't count you as unemployed. That's right. While you are as unemployed as one can possibly be, and tragically may never find work again, you are not counted in the figure we see relentlessly in the news--currently 5.6%. Right now, as many as 30 million Americans are either out of work or severely underemployed. Trust me, the vast majority of them aren't throwing parties to toast "falling" unemployment.Clifton also points out that under employment--where someone is working far below his experience, training, or education level--is horribly high. And still another is the wide spread problem of people who want full time work but can only find part time work yet are being counted by Obama as part of his misleading "rise" in new jobs. Clifton ends this way:
I hear all the time that "unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it." When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth--the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real--then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't "feeling" something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.All absolutely true. Obama's so-called recovery is built on lies. But, then again, this president has made it a practice to lie about every policy he inflicts upon the country. So, why the "educated" have taken six years to learn this is beyond me. After all, remember these lies...
Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.