Well they did not have Unemployment Compensation (UEC) back then and now they are counting only those who are still on the roles of unemployment. Counting everyone else out of work, who are no longer in the queue of UEC temporary headcount, we have 27.5% which eclipses the Great Depression of the 1930's following the Stock Market Crash of 1929 (and that is without counting the underemployed who lost their jobs and then took jobs out of their expertise that pay less than one half to 15% of their previous jobs).
The MSM has not been very cooperative with truth since the 1960's and probably, unless tax subsidies support independent news organizations, The MSM never will be honest and truthful unless corporations are not allowed to own any of the news on any and all media.
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