Stephen Metzger

The Real Unemployment Numbers

When you start adding the discouraged, no longer looking to the unemployment numbers, that is when I bow out of the article. Impossible to measure accurately and even if such numbers were, they largely affect transient workers (i.e., in and out of the workforce as a work pattern), and so it would be entirely inappropriate to report these in the base unemployment figures. The whole tone of your article seems to be trying to set the stage for some great uprising by the angry masses. Hopefully, your critical perspective remains intact when the messiah ascends his throne.