PolitiFact: Gingrich uses obscure statistic to mislead about labor market weakness

The labor market is weak because if you count the unemployed, underemployed, and those who've stopped looking for work, the unemployment rate "actually went up last month to 13.5 percent." On NBC's Meet the Press , former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., pointed to a somewhat obscure labor statistic as evidence that the economy continues to fare ... (more)

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