Critique of reporting on level of unemployment

Greg Boozell cantv at wwa.com
Tue Jul 13 14:01:35 PDT 1999


The NATIONAL JOBS FOR ALL COALITION reports:


> It should be noted that even these numbers do not include the vast and rapidly growing >prison population, disproportionately young, unskilled minority men. If they were >counted as unemployed, the official jobless rate would rise by over 1 percentage point.

and the WSJ reports:


>black unemployment has dropped to 9% from 15% in 1985.

I wonder what the black unemployment figures would be if the prison population was factored in?

Greg Boozell cantv at wwa.com

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