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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
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Subject: Re: Things I never thought would appear
Date: 15 Oct 2024 23:02:27 -0000
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Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>It's claimed that the US unemployment rate is very low, but I suspect
>the government simply defines most unemployed people as not being part
>of the labor force.  There seem to be more and more homeless people
>every year.  The Washington Post keeps asking why so many people
>believe the economy is in bad shape when the government informs us
>that it's in great shape.  My conjecture is that the government is
>lying to us.

I hate to tell you this but a lot of the homeless people in the DC area
actually have jobs.... just not jobs that pay enough for them to live
off the streets.  If anything, that is more damning.
--scott

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