D.C. Decoder: Unemployment Numbers Don’t Tell Whole Story

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D.C. Decoder: Unemployment Numbers Don’t Tell Whole Story

By Bo Huttinger

Posted June 30, 2015 at 12:30pm

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Each month the nation breathlessly awaits the latest unemployment and job growth numbers. ‘D.C. Decoder’ host Craig Crawford shows how those numbers are determined and why they don’t tell the whole story.

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