Reply #12: My inference is based on the fact he used data from a few months ago... [View All]

[Drunken Irishman]

When there is newer data readily available that suggests underemployment is at worst, stagnant.

Look, you know full well what he did here. If that isn't his point, he would have used June's numbers to back up his claim. But they don't because his claim was that, once again, underemployment was going up. As he said in the article here:

Gallup's measure of underemployment hit 20.0% on March 15th. That was up from 19.7% two weeks earlier and 19.5% at the start of the year.


March 15th. It's almost June 15th. This data is already three months old and the data doesn't show an uptick in underemployment like the March 15th data. This is why he used those numbers and not June's. This is why I don't take this article seriously. If you're going to quote numbers, you better damn well make sure they're updated because it undermines the point he's trying to make.

But whatever, continue believing what you want.