Dammit! Gallup's lying AGAIN! NOW they're saying the

[Barbella]

unemployment rate went up AGAIN, to 7.9%!

It WAS 7.5% just a couple of weeks ago, then 7.6%, then 7.8%, now 7.9%? That CAN'T be true! Everyone knows we're smack dab in the middle of a RECOVERY! What's Gallup trying to pull?

http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx

 

[ITALIA]

unemployment rate went up AGAIN, to 7.9%!

It WAS 7.5% just a couple of weeks ago, then 7.6%, then 7.8%, now 7.9%? That CAN'T be true! Everyone knows we're smack dab in the middle of a RECOVERY! What's Gallup trying to pull?

http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx

When did Gallup become the official unemployment report?

 

[Jen]

Psssssttttt............ I think it's actually higher than 7.9% if they were to start actually reporting it accurately.

 

[Barbella]

Of course.....

They're feeding us pap, and some of us are happily swallowing it.

 

[JackDallas]

Obviously, Gallup is a tool for the GOPWingers.

 

[OldGaffer]

Obviously, Gallup is a tool for the GOPWingers.

They damn sure got that RMoney landslide win picked , I know you went to bed thinking the election was in the Republican Bag.

 

[KnotaFrayed]

Psssssttttt............ I think it's actually higher than 7.9% if they were to start actually reporting it accurately.

Psssstttt.........it was all Republicans fault.

See, if I say it, it must be true, right?

Gallup contacted how many people to determine the national unemployment rate?

 

[ITALIA]

Psssssttttt............ I think it's actually higher than 7.9% if they were to start actually reporting it accurately.

Psssssttttt........... When did they start actually reporting it inaccurately?

 

[EatTheRich]

Psssssttttt........... When did they start actually reporting it inaccurately?

Well, during the Reagan administration, they started counting active-duty military as employed instead of as not part of the work force, to lower the reported unemployment rate. Under Clinton, they started including people in welfare-to-work programs and prison laborers as employed. And apparently today, they've replaced BLS gathering of labor statistics with Gallup polls.