Quote Originally Posted by Latrinsorm View Post
I can't speak to what values you saw, but unemployment by month is available as far back as 1948.
True story. My point is more along the lines that the press (liberal or otherwise) really only has an attention span of right now... and by recalculating the seasonal adjustments every month it allows for skewed numbers to be published, and when the real (typically higher) numbers are restated, no one cares.

Nevermind that the unemployment percentage is based only on those who've actively tried to find a job in the last 4 weeks I think, and if you haven't tried you don't count in the numerator or the denominator. So technically, the more people you can get to give up, the better your unemployment rate looks.