{"id":38586,"date":"2017-05-18T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38586"},"modified":"2017-05-17T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T21:02:31","slug":"you-cant-trust-employment-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/18\/you-cant-trust-employment-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Trust Employment Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hf9l0PoRtbs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 17 May 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no truly good way to measure unemployment, which makes it pretty easy for successive administrations to claim that unemployment is consistently improving. But when we do our level best to include all of the unemployed in the numbers, what we learn is that unemployment levels now are higher than they were at the beginning of the Great Recession. That\u2019s the bad news. The good news is that things actually have been getting better over time. In this week\u2019s episode, James and Antony take a look at the actual unemployment numbers to get to the bottom of what they really mean.<\/p>\n<p>Get the facts here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/you-cant-trust-unemployment-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/you-cant-trust-unemployment-statistics\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 17 May 2017 There is no truly good way to measure unemployment, which makes it pretty easy for successive administrations to claim that unemployment is consistently improving. But when we do our level best to include all of the unemployed in the numbers, what we learn is that unemployment levels now are higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[95,718,290],"class_list":["post-38586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-jobs","tag-recession","tag-statistics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a2m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38587,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38586\/revisions\/38587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}