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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

GOP Lawmaker Calls for Change to How Government Measures Unemployment

A Republican lawmaker is intensifying his push for legislation that would change how the government measures the unemployment rate.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) intends to press GOP leaders to move his bill to include the number of individuals who gave up looking for work in the percentage of jobless claims.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So he wants the numbers to reflect the crowd that conservatives previously painted as being lazy and not worth recording.