How do they say it with a straight face?

This is the same thing that happened in the eighties. When the economy starts to come back people who fell off the roles start looking for work again so the unemployment rate goes back up while increasing jobs. These are the people who had used up there benefits and or did not take their benefits to begin with. The unemloyment number is always wrong or low because they have no way to count the people who are not taking unemployment or have fallen off the roles. Encreasedemployment is really the only good number to judge what is going on with the private sector and those numbers come in by the quarter so they are always behind reality.

It looks like they're getting their unemployment numbers from the job search engines which doesn't seem to be the best way to determine what they actually are but it is encouraging that more people are using whatever it is they're getting the numbers from. In this day and age you can't depend on the local newspaper. This article does leave you going......though.

Beats me. I think one of the requirements to be in the Obama administration is how to tell an outrageous oxymoron story and have the American people believe is is good news! IMO it is insulting for the government to think we are all gullible morons.

Well I live in California and I can tell you the unemployment rate here is high, and the only thing that makes any sense to me is that a huge number of people have exhausted all extension benefits recently, so that would make our numbers look better over the past 6 weeks or so. Unfortunately they are far from correct. Our unemployment is at 12.6% I believe.

what i love is when they say 'unemployment is down".. yea,that's only because people have run out of UI benefits and dropped from the rolls..not because they've found a job,necessarily..