The Porch Light Is On And Nobody Is Home

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6. Various Sources

See various sources like polls and election voter stats. When Obama won he lost the majority of seniors. In my contacts with union officials it is remarkable how many union voter vote GOP because of gays and guns. I was talking to union steward just the other day and he was telling me that a number of the members in his union were GOP supporters.

Plus I worked at the Labor Department for 24 years and there are a lot of statistics that we had that are never discussed in the media or by politicians. There are also a lot of gaps in what the labor stats tell you about the economy.

Here is what labor stats hide, ignore or just don't assess.

No mass lay off report. No numbers on how many jobs are contract. No numbers on number of outsourced jobs. No reporting requirement of number of layoffs by employers. No information of the number of applicants for jobs. No information about he ratio of living wage jobs to low pay jobs. Jobs not evaluated for their value. 100,000 jobs that are not full time and not equal to 100,000 full time jobs. Average pay for jobs available.

There are many ways to look at the job market. What we are doing now with stats is actually pretty vague.