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Fox used a dishonest comparison of two different measures of unemployment to suggest the unemployment rate has nearly doubled since President Obama took office.Fox News and Mitt Romney have also taken to include people who are no longer looking for work. But in that group they are including people who have decided to retire early - aging baby boomers. In other words doing the arithmetic is just too much work for the Fox Big Lie Propaganda Channel. Why does Fox News hate America and want America to fail? Republicans have been blocking the Jobs Act - which would create as many as a million jobs for about a year.
During a segment criticizing the Obama administration for its messaging on the economy, a Fox & Friends graphic claimed that the "real unemployment rate" had increased from 7.8% in 2009 to 14.7% now:
But in order to make the claim that unemployment had increased from 7.8% to 14.7% during Obama's time in office, Fox had to conflate two different statistics and completely distort Obama's jobs record.
The 7.8 percent figure is the official unemployment rate from January 2009. This statistic reports on people who are unemployed and actively looking for a job. But as of the latest report, the official unemployment rate is 8.1 percent (0.3 percent higher than it was in January 2009), not 14.7 percent.
The 14.7 percent figure is a completely different measurement of the unemployed, which in addition to those who are actively looking for work, also counts people who are unemployed and discouraged from looking for a new job, part-time workers who prefer full-time employment, and more. This alternative measure of unemployment, which conservatives often call the "real" unemployment rate, was 14.2 percent in January 2009 -- 0.5 percentage points lower than it is today.
Indeed an accurate chart of this statistic would show that the rate has declined in recent years:
After being presented with the Fox graphic, Fox News contributor Laura Ingraham said: "Other than Fox News, where are you really seeing those statistics?"
Where, indeed? Fox has quite the history when it comes to presenting misleading unemployment data to its viewers...
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