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Originally posted by Food Eater Lad
In late August, the AFL-CIO issued a press release titled "U.S. Workers Struggle in Worst Job Slump Since Great Depression." They said this with a straight face even though, at that time, the unemployment rate was 6.2%. In the Depression it was above 20% and in the early 1980s, at the height of union membership, unemployment was 10.8%. --Brian S. Wesbury
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Well, you must remember that it was the worst job slump since the depression when considering
how many people were unemployed, rather than the percentage.
Really, a lot of these statements seem like an outline for a new first-person Michael Moore flick.