bitmap@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA (04/08/84)
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Today's paper gave the latest unemployment rate statistic:
7.8%, and near the end of the paper stated that the combined
military-civilian unemployment rate was 7.7% . The 7.8% figure is
the one that got all the headlines, and I'm fairly sure that this
has been true in past months.
Conclusions: Although the new method of calculating the
unemployment was introduced a year or two ago, all the headline
figures have used the older method. Thus, the statistic has,
for all practical purposes, been calculated consistently.
The present difference in the method of calculating
unemployment is only 0.1% . It may have been higher in the past
(someone else on the net mentioned a 0.6% difference), but it
almost certainly has not been a difference of 1%, as someone's economics
professor apparently said.
Sam Hall
ucbvax!ucbtopaz!bitmaplkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) (04/10/84)
So far the US has spent $N million funding the "rebels" fighting Nicaragua on the pretense of halting arms shipments. Meanwhile, NOT ONE ARMS SHIPMENT HAS BEEN STOPPED. Hmm. The outright lies by the US govt. about their intentions in Nicaragua are the most transparent I've ever seen in many years. -- Larry Kolodney (The Devil's Advocate) (USE) ..decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!lkk (ARPA) lkk@mit-mc
notes@iuvax.UUCP (04/10/84)
#R:ucbtopaz:-45400:iuvax:2000021:000:244 iuvax!scsg Apr 9 12:58:00 1984 I am glad that the old method is still being used. If Ronnie sends American boys to El Salvador to kill and be killed I am sure that he would rather such "productive" uses counted as employment. tim sevener IU,Bloomington pur-ee!iuvax!scsg
rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (04/12/84)
<> (On considering the military as part of the work force.) >...If Ronnie >sends American boys to El Salvador to kill and be killed I am >sure that he would rather such "productive" uses counted as >employment. But Ronnie might not be so eager if he had to face OSHA studying this part of the workforce - talk about "hazardous work conditions"! And how about minimum wages (or is the military rank-and-file much better paid than in the past?) :-) -- "A friend of the devil is a friend of mine." Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303) 444-5710 x3086