All Government stats are bullshit. The real unemployment rate in the US is somewhere around 17%.
http://www.shadowstats.com/
http://www.shadowstats.com/
Quote from Alex_in_Oz:
We in Australia are no strangers to bullshit statistics.
Remember we have 5% unemployment rate yet the economy shrank 1.2 %! Figure that one out!
A storm, the weather, is enough to send our GDP plummetting.
The RBA has sent the east coast into recession because it sees danger of 'inflation'.
I think there are other forces at work....