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The Trouble With Surveys: A New Reason to Question the Official Unemployment Rate

An academic paper finds that people’s answers change over the months that the government surveys them, likely understating the official jobless rate. [Source]

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Origin: nytimes.com

Category: Unemployment

Topics: jobless, official, understating, likely, surveys, government, months, change, answers, people’s, finds, paper, academic, Unemployment, Official, Question, Reason, Surveys, Trouble

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