{"id":105593,"date":"2014-01-14T00:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-government-manipulating-jobless-rate\/"},"modified":"2014-01-14T00:14:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:14:20","slug":"us-government-manipulating-jobless-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/us-government-manipulating-jobless-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"US government &#8216;manipulating&#8217; jobless rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US government is \u00c5\u201cmanipulating\u201d the country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s \u00c5\u201cdangerously high\u201d unemployment rate, one of the many ways that it \u00c5\u201cdeceives American voters,\u201d a political analyst tells Press TV.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cManipulating the unemployment rate is one of many ways that the federal government deceives American voters,\u201d said Carla Howell, the executive director for the Libertarian National Committee in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cThe unemployment rate is dangerously high for young workers. They\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re trapped between a rock and a hard place,\u201d she said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cBut young workers aren\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t the only ones affected. Workers of all ages are struggling to find well-paying jobs,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c5\u201cNo matter what politicians claim the unemployment rate is, workers searching for jobs know better. They see that Democratic and Republican promises to \u00cb\u0153stimulate the economy\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 have utterly failed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The number of working age Americans that do not have a job has increased by nearly 10 million since Barack Obama first entered the White House, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2009, the number of \u00c5\u201cofficially unemployed\u201d workers plus the number of Americans \u00c5\u201cnot in the labor force\u201d was sitting at a grand total of 92.6 million. Today, that number has risen to 102.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>US employers hired the fewest number of workers in almost three years during December, raising concerns about whether the job market can sustain its recent gains.<\/p>\n<p>According to a CNN\/ORC poll released in December, nearly 70 percent of Americans feel pessimistic about the US economy and believe it is not improving.<\/p>\n<p>AHT\/AGB<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2014\/01\/14\/345468\/us-government-manipulating-jobless-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"US government 'manipulating' jobless rate\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government is \u00c5\u201cmanipulating\u201d the country\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s \u00c5\u201cdangerously high\u201d unemployment rate, one of the many ways that it \u00c5\u201cdeceives American voters,\u201d a political analyst tells Press TV. \u00c5\u201cManipulating the unemployment rate is one of many ways that the federal government deceives American voters,\u201d said Carla Howell, the executive director for the Libertarian National Committee in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-105593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}