
Episode 14: You Can't Trust Employment Statistics
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The Importance of Comparing Data Over Time
There is no good way to do this, right? They're just competing in adequate ways. Right. So we're dealing with a largely inadequate method of counting, but it at least gives us something to work with. And we can actually compare things over time. Let's talk about what was going on just prior to the Great Recession compared to what's going on now. We've got data from then to literally what the Bureau of Labor gave us last week. What do we see when we start looking at this data with no political acts to grind? I think that's a right way to do it.
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