I find the 8th paragraph under “WHERE DO THE STATISTICS COME FROM?” quite amusing:
“Each month, 1,500 highly trained and experienced (THIS HAD ME LOL) Census Bureau employees interview persons in the 60,000 sample households for information on the labor force activities (jobholding and jobseeking) or non-labor force status of the members of these households during the week that includes the 12th of the month (the reference week). This information, relating to all household members 16 years of age and over, is entered by the interviewers into laptop computers (most likely circa 1991 IBMs); at the end of each day’s interviewing, the data collected are transmitted to the Census Bureau’s central computer in Washington, D.C. In addition, a portion of the sample is interviewed by phone through two central data collection facilities. (Prior to 1994, the interviews were conducted using a paper questionnaire which had to be mailed in by the interviewers each month.)”
I guess the highly trained and experienced are about as good as our Department of Homeland Security scanning for devices at the local airports. If you have heartbeat you are a considered highly trained and experienced!! This country is so technologically advanced that I would assume that they could find a more efficient way of determining unemployment, but why would you when this current strategy allows for the US to present an extreme version of a false reality.
