How to make sure
that it looks as if unemployment is going down:
Take two people who want to work 40 hours a week
and give them each a 20-hours-a-week job.
This is one 40 hour job
and one invisible, uncounted unemployed person.
Release a monthly figure telling us that unemployment
is going down.
Rely on the press and TV to say that unemployment
is going down.
Unemployment figures.
No, it doesn't.
