12-12-10 What is the true US unemployment rate?

Obviously, one cannot trust the US government figures...
In fact, one must doubt that any US government agency has valid data that the government itself can trust. When the data are manipulated at every level, you end up with massive self-deception, kind of what happened at the end of the Soviet Union...

More Phony Employment Numbers

By Paul Craig Roberts

A government that wants to cut the social safety net doesn't want you to know that the unemployment rate is 22.9%.
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