At the Value Voters Summit in Washington, Paul Ryan falsely claimed that there are 23 million unemployed people in America.
“And here is what we got: prolonged joblessness across the country,” Mr. Ryan said. “23 million Americans struggling to find work.”
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 12.5 million people are unemployed. Even if you were to add the 844,000 people that are not actively looking for work, and classified as discouraged workers who are not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them, you only get a total of 13,344,000. And if you add the total 2.6 million people who have not searched for work in the 4 weeks before the U.S. Labor Department count, but searched for work during the preceding 12 months, you only get a number of 15.1 million.
The unemployment rate for women is 7.3 percent and 10.2 percent for Hispanics.
Mr. Ryan basically echoed the statistics that were cited by Clint Eastwood delivering his speech at the Republican National Convention. Mr. Eastwood also said that there were 23 million unemployed people.
“I haven’t cried that hard since I found out that there are 23 million unemployed people in this country,” Mr. Eastwood said. “This administration hasn’t done enough to cure that.”
At the time of Mr. Eastwood’s false claim, there were 12.8 million people unemployed in America.
Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, also claimed during a Fox News interview that no new jobs have been created in America during the Obama administration. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that 3.8 million jobs were created under the Obama administration.
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This author is uninformed. The number is fairly accurate. You need to also account for population growth, and the decline in the participation rate… All of a sudden I guess people don’t need jobs because the participation in the labor market is hitting lows.
But yes… keep trusting the BLS numbers.
I didn’t think that the Government was supposed to create jobs, especially when small businesses account for more jobs created than large corporations put together, that’s a fact.
I lost one third of my 401K under Bush and when Obama got into office, I now have doubled my money while not even contributing to it.
Ryan is as shady as the come, just look at his eyes when he talks and his condescending tone in his voice is bad for America.
Good afternoon, don’t forget that once a persons unemployment runs out, they fall of the list of stats and are not counted at all. There is no real accurate only guesses of actual figures which without much doubt are much higher than ever would be reported. … but that would perhaps depend upon whose guess you were listening to.
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. ~Aaron Levenstein
which has nothing to do with and doesn’t change the fact that Paul Ryan just makes tings up as he goes along, he gets caught every week telling another big fat whopper. Thank you drive through please …
The US labor department is the one lying. Unemployed means Not (from the un) employed. It doesn’t mean people who currently are collecting unemployment who will magically cease to exist once their time runs out.
Ryan gets called a liar for telling the truth a lot. Its almost like some people don’t understand the concept of truth.
Like when he said Obama said that direct quote obama actually said and then he said a factory closed within a year and it actually closed within that year and then everyone called it a lie?
YA like that.
I account for those people whose unemployment has run out too:
“…if you add the total 2.6 million people who have not searched for work in the 4 weeks before the U.S. Labor Department count, but searched for work during the preceding 12 months, you only get a number of 15.1 million.”
Once you stop searching for work, you don’t ‘qualify for unemployment; yet as per the U.S. Labor Department stats, you are included in the count.