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#766: December 16, 2003

Knowledge Fight

CHAPTER

How Do You Calculate Unemployment Rates?

Alex Castellanos: Unemployment is well above what they're saying it is. Why do people like Rush Limbaugh and he's echoing our government believe that these kinds of jobs are just expendable? Castellanos asks, "I used to work in the textile industry... why are these jobs just expendable?" He says there are other ways to calculate unemployment rates including underemployment and discouraged worker figures.

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