Are the Republicans biased in their reporting of job numbers?

	Are the Republicans biased in their reporting of job numbers? Last month, the unemployment rate and the number of employed rose, the Republicans complained about the unemployment rate. Now, the the unemployment falls and the number of employed does not grow as much as last month, and the Republicans say the unemployment rate is useless, the real number is the number employed. Why are they so eager to put politics before truth? Asked By: ObamaBot THX-1138 - 6/2/2011

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Why do they whine about everything and run with the first GOP plan they hear? The Great Prosperity- During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced. Mass production and mass consumption proved perfect complements. Almost everyone who wanted a job could find one with good wages, or at least wages that were trending upward. During these three decades everyone’s wages grew — not just those at or near the top. Government enforced the basic bargain in several ways. It used Keynesian policy to achieve nearly full employment. It gave ordinary workers more bargaining power. It provided social insurance. And it expanded public investment. Consequently, the portion of total income that went to the middle class grew while the portion going to the top declined. But this was no zero-sum game. As the economy grew almost everyone came out ahead, including those at the top. The pay of workers in the bottom fifth grew 116 percent over these years — faster than the pay of those in the top fifth (which rose 99 percent), and in the top 5 percent (86 percent). Productivity also grew quickly. Labor productivity — average output per hour worked — doubled. So did median incomes. Expressed in 2007 dollars, the typical family’s income rose from about $25,000 to $55,000. The basic bargain was cinched. The middle class had the means to buy, and their buying created new jobs. As the economy grew, the national debt shrank as a percentage of it. The Great Prosperity also marked the culmination of a reorganization of work that had begun during the Depression. Employers were required by law to provide extra pay — time-and-a-half — for work stretching beyond 40 hours a week. This created an incentive for employers to hire additional workers when demand picked up. Employers also were required to pay a minimum wage, which improved the pay of workers near the bottom as demand picked up. When workers were laid off, usually during an economic downturn, government provided them with unemployment benefits, usually lasting until the economy recovered and they were rehired. Not only did this tide families over but it kept them buying goods and services — an “automatic stabilizer” for the economy in downturns. Perhaps most significantly, government increased the bargaining leverage of ordinary workers. They were guaranteed the right to join labor unions, with which employers had to bargain in good faith. By the mid-1950s more than a third of all America workers in the private sector were unionized. And the unions demanded and received a fair slice of the American pie. Non-unionized companies, fearing their workers would otherwise want a union, offered similar deals. Americans also enjoyed economic security against the risks of economic life — not only unemployment benefits but also, through Social Security, insurance against disability, loss of a major breadwinner, workplace injury and inability to save enough for retirement. In 1965 came health insurance for the elderly and the poor (Medicare and Medicaid). Economic security proved the handmaiden of prosperity. In requiring Americans to share the costs of adversity it enabled them to share the benefits of peace of mind. And by offering peace of mind, it freed them to consume the fruits of their labors. The government sponsored the dreams of American families to own their own home by providing low-cost mortgages and interest deductions on mortgage payments. In many sections of the country, government subsidized electricity and water to make such homes habitable. And it built the roads and freeways that connected the homes with major commercial centers. Government also widened access to higher education. The GI Bill paid college costs for those who returned from war. The expansion of public universities made higher education affordable to the American middle class. Government paid for all of this with tax revenues from an expanding middle class with rising incomes. Revenues were also boosted by those at the top of the income ladder whose marginal taxes were far higher. The top marginal income tax rate during World War II was over 68 percent. In the 1950s, under Dwight Eisenhower, whom few would call a radical, it rose to 91 percent. In the 1960s and 1970s the highest marginal rate was around 70 percent. Even after exploiting all possible deductions and credits, the typical high-income taxpayer paid a marginal federal tax of over 50 percent. But contrary to what conservative commentators had predicted, the high tax rates did not reduce economic growth. To the contrary, they enabled the nation to expand middle-class prosperity and fuel growth. Answered By: Con Skinhead - 6/2/2011

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Because they learn that trick from the Democrats and it has worked well for them. Answered By: George Orwell - 6/2/2011

Learn about the Fox News organization and you might figure out why: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-20110525 Answered By: toshimelonhead - 6/2/2011

What figures are you using this time? in everyone of your posts you are WRONG and uninformed. Answered By: John Molester - 6/2/2011

Does that make sense to you? The unemployment rate and the number of employed rose? Think about it. And now the unemployment rate "falls" and the number of employed does not grow as much as last month? That doesn't make sense either. If people were truly getting their jobs back then shouldn't unemployment be decreasing and shouldn't employment be increasing? Why does it sound so... strange then? 1 side is increasing while the other is not moving? Have you listened to any of Obama's speeches? He says lots of contradictory stuff like that... Oh look, you're name is Obama-bot... Guess I should've expected it, you two are so alike. Answered By: Orange Smith - 6/2/2011

Is the Pope Catholic? Of course they are, after all they are staking everything on tanking the economy so they can blame the Democrats and drive them and President Obama out of office. Answered By: skipjack2012 - 6/2/2011

The unemployment rate was about 9?ast I heard. We have thousands of Master Degree recipients working in McDonald's, though. Welcome to Obamanomics which says "Borrow More and Spend More". Answered By: GABY - 6/2/2011

Yahoo News....Obama Unemployment is Up.......why are you not able to figure out that the lower Gas Prices are a result of a slowing Obama Economy. Yeah Yahoo is such a Right Wing Hack Organization. HAHA Source(s): Cain Palin 2012....Stop the Deadly Obama Tornadoes in their Muslim Tracks Answered By: Obey NObama Bunny - 6/2/2011

The democrats are Answered By: black leopard - 6/2/2011

No. But Democrats do it every month! Source(s): cnn, ap, bbc, cnsnews, c-span.org Answered By: Messin With Sasquatch - 6/2/2011

The Republicans are slowly and painfully imploding I won''t dare mention treason. but..? Answered By: Uncle Sam - 6/2/2011

I guess it depends on what truth you believe. Government figures only record jobs filled and the number of people who register and qualify for unemployment. They do not distinguish between full- and part-time employment, they do not report those who lost benefits, those who left a job through illness and have not been cleared to go back to work, those who gave up looking, nor those who are looking but do not qualify for benefits. The number of unemployed is far greater than those reported, no matter whose figures you use. Maybe the Democrats just don't want anyone to know how many of their working class members aren't working, or maybe the Republicans want their big business buddies to know there's a gold mine of desperate people out here looking for any kind of job. Source(s): There have been several news reports on this from ALL the networks. Answered By: jelesais2000 - 6/2/2011

Republicans are biased on every single thing. That is the truth. I wonder how much could be accomplished if the President was allowed to do his job without daily poll readings, Fox News finding something to complain about with him every single day, wackos actually spending tons of money on lawyers and courts, both theirs and the tax payers to try to create a conspiracy about a birth certificate. Even with all this, President Obama has accomplished more than the last President did in his whole 8 years. Whereas Bush created devastation and a recession with many experts in 2008 predicting it to be much worse for America and a guaranteed depression - President Obama not only stopped the downslide the country was going down under Republican rule but also got America out of the recession, you haven't heard the word or talks of recession since 2009. Whereas Bush allowed thousands of lives to die due to terrorist attacks on 9/11 - President Obama actually got the man behind the destruction Answered By: falisha - 6/2/2011

Eager is putting it mildly...Their in a mass hurry to get this done.All they care about is 2012 in the white house.Their agenda started in the late 90's.Bush was selected to be president to get the ball rolling.Who knew it would come back to bite them in the butt? not them.but then Obama showed up and threw a monkey wrench in all their plans.Hence now their running around confused as hell.So every move they make has been a disaster and if need be they will bring America down with them.If they lose we all lose if they win we all lose.Their interest does not include the American people.I think they're spies sent here to take over this country.Or.they are so into debt with these other countries that they'll do anything to keep their necks out of a noose. Answered By: cheyenne - 6/2/2011

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