According to a CNN news report, the unemployment rate is 6.3, the lowest it's been in 5 years. Who do they think they're fooling? A lot goes into calculating the true unemployment rate because ALL groups have to be counted: Individuals with disabilities, those who stopped looking, unemployment benefit exhaustion, etc. If you count those groups, the ACTUAL unemployment rate will be higher than 6.3%. At first glance, there's room for celebration because people are finding jobs and stimulating the economy with their income. Looks can be deceiving so whenever I read these kind of reports, I dig deeper. The black unemployment rate is 11.4, which is down from 12.6 the previous month. The black unemployment rate alone is higher than the so-called unemployment rate. The media doesn't talk about that because it's not friendly to mainstream white viewers.
The statisticians that come up with these unemployment numbers are going to dress it up real nice so as to make people think Obama is doing a good job in reducing unemployment. Anyone with critical thinking skills would dig deeper to find the real truth, and wouldn't be easily led by the claim that unemployment is down. It would be nice if the actual unemployment rate was 6.3%, but I and other likeminded people know that's not true. People have to learn how NOT to take things at face value. Dig deeper for the truth, because it saves you the feeling of disappointment. If the numbers can be skewed to make people feel better about the economy, that's what will be done. I don't agree with it, because you're giving people false hope. Individuals with disabilities and those who stopped looking for work have unemployment rates twice the national average.
Persons with disabilities want to work, and many of them are just as qualified (if not more) as the next person. The problem is that employers are biased towards persons with disabilities; they can't look past the handicap and would rather hire a non-disabled person. If you take two qualified candidates & one of them has a disability, the non-disabled person will pretty much get the job every time. Here's the catch: The disabled person is a great fit for the company and job, but employers will give every reason as to why a non-disabled person was hired over the disabled person, and it will always have to do with bias.
