With even the Federal Reserve throwing doubt on the veracity (or usefulness) of the 'official' unemployment data (having finally caught on to the reality we have highlighted for a number of years), Petr Pinkhasov [6] has created a more 'real' unemployment index reflecting the reality of every day for the average American...
The following is an index tracking unemployment related searches on Google. The official description of this chart is the following: "unemployment, food stamps, social security, edd, disability" and so forth.
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