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Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by FabHK on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @06:08PM (#23707368)
The article headline was more precise though ("Almost half of the U.S. population does not have a job"), so here editorialising made the headline worse in at least one respect.
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Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by mmm_grayons on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @08:35PM (#23708603)
The title was actually changed because a bunch of people thought it was sensationalized and sounded too close to a 51% unemployment rate (which isn't, "percentage of people without a job".) See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23706562
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Re:The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen f... by FabHK on Thursday July 02, 2020 @07:52AM (#23712158)
Yes. The headline was changed for that reason, making it better in at least one respect (namely less confusing for people that do not know the distinction between unemployment rate and employment population ratio), and worse in at least one respect (replacing the specific "U.S. population" with the less precise "Americans"). As I said.
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