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WCGreen

(45,558 posts)

11. How the fuck could they expect great news when over 8% of the population

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Tue Dec 27, 2011, 05:47 PM

Dec 2011

is "formaly" unemployed...

I put the quotes in because this stat represents the government formal counting of the unemployed and not the real situtation.

In the governments stat, they do not count people who have given up on finding a job and or no longer recieving Unemployment benefits.

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