{"id":2381,"date":"2010-07-15T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/the-unanswered-question\/"},"modified":"2010-07-15T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T20:03:18","slug":"the-unanswered-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/the-unanswered-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unanswered Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this headline from <a href=\"http:\/\/tcbmag.blogs.com\/daily_developments\/2010\/07\/mn-june-unemployment-rate-drops-sheds-3700-jobs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Twin Cities Business<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>MN June Unemployment Rate Drops, Sheds 3,700 Jobs<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jobs are lost and the unemployment rate decreases\u2026how can this be?\u00a0 It is a question that begs an answer, yet you won\u2019t find it in this article.\u00a0 The closest it comes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minnesota\u2019s unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted 6.8 percent even though employers cut 3,700 jobs during the month, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) said on Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly workers had to leave the workforce or unemployment benefits expired for many Minnesotans.\u00a0 It is probably a combination of both factors.\u00a0 This is a critical flaw in the unemployment number.\u00a0 The better approach here would be to track how many people are actually working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at this headline from Twin Cities Business: MN June Unemployment Rate Drops, Sheds 3,700 Jobs Jobs are lost and the unemployment rate decreases\u2026how can this be?\u00a0 It is a question that begs an answer, yet you won\u2019t find it in this article.\u00a0 The closest it comes: Minnesota\u2019s unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percent in June to a seasonally adjusted 6.8 percent even though employers cut 3,700 jobs during the month, the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) said on Thursday. Clearly workers had to leave the workforce or unemployment benefits expired for many Minnesotans.\u00a0 It is probably a combination of both factors.\u00a0 This is a critical&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/07\/the-unanswered-question\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,2,23],"tags":[1748,1156,1619,1618,1082,1616,1617],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-Cp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->