Re:1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wag...
by Mary-Jane on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:02PM
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Which again, has been the case for a very long time. The participation rate has been tracked for as long; rather than changing how unemployment is calculated the media could just reporting that metric instead. Seems like a simpler solution.
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Re:1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wag...
by _qulr on Sunday November 22, 2020 @06:49AM
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> Which again, has been the case for a very long time.
We all seem to be admitting that it's a bad, misleading statistic. So why are we so committed to keeping it around forever? Why not change the definition?
People say "for historical comparison", but what's the point of a historical comparison of a statistic that we all admit now is bad and misleading?
The fact that something has always been done a certain way is no justification for continuing to do it, especially if the initial decision was misguided in some way.