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> The article is pretty clearly politically motivated. Supporting links as to why Politico would do something like this: https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/axel-springer-politico-... https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/politico...
N.B: This is the same Springer group that owns a (very) large share of the world’s scientific journals, including quite a few of the most prestigious ones.
> I don’t believe those who went into this past election taking pride in the unemployment numbers understood that the near-record low unemployment figures — the figure was a mere 4.2 percent in November — counted homeless people doing occasional work as “employed.” But the implications are powerful. If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a po…
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I’d love to see some data supporting this argument because I’ve heard it over and over from people all over the political spectrum the past few years but it just doesn’t line up with any data. You act like they’re quoting abstract numbers which are meaningless compared to people’s “lived experience” but unemployment is a large part of people’s experience. Furthermore, inflation adjusted wages are up (with the highest…
If you can’t see the issues with the data you aren’t looking. If you examine the CPI basket and see that health care weighing vs what it is as a % of the economy and that doesn’t draw suspicion idk what will.