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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Math Fail: Fox News Says 8.6 Percent Unemployment Is Greater Than 8.8 And Equal To 9
For Fox News, math is tricky. After all, the subject does require a working knowledge of fractions, percentages, and knowing that 9 is greater than 8. Today, Fox took a stab at those concepts in a chart tracking unemployment rates over the past year. As Media Matters noted, Fox determined that the 8.6 percent unemployment rate in November is higher than the 8.8 percent rate from March and equal to the 9 percent rate from April:
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Look at the number of long-term unemployed, and remember, when you stop collecting unemployment, you are no longer counted in the unemployment rate. The number is going down, not because of an uptick in hiring, but due to people "leaving the rolls". The last 3 months we've had less than 300K hires, so technically, we're not even keeping up with the natural population increase. Yet, the unemployment rate has ticked down from 9.0 to 8.6. Quoting media matters is as bad as quoting Keith Olbermann.
The real number is around 18% the liberal media and the White house are dishonest.
20%
Something tells me that "Contributor" has no problem with the blatantly dishonest and manufactered numbers on temperature by Michael Mann.
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