ThyBlackMan.com) When you understate the number of unemployed, which leads to understating our unemployment rates,
people can literally go hungry, as they are underserved when it comes to potential and real federal government benefits. It is super important to get our unemployment rates right, so that the unemployed are not invisible. They should be readily visible to policymakers, to voters and the general public. Real data can lead to “
real” solutions. Using real data, policymakers can actively address our unemployment situation and actually solve it.
The inability of a statistical survey, especially one that is official, such as our monthly jobs report, to capture the full picture of what is going on in our economy, when it comes to joblessness, leads to systemic racism. Objectivity and who is measured, and which unemployment rate category is presented as the “