Last Week Was the Bureau of Labor Statistics Lying?

You've mixed this up.

Your article is about the weekly jobless claims, which appeared to be down significantly. Not the 7.8% unemployment number.

UPDATE: Negative. The 7.8% unemployment rate number comes from a monthly survey of 60,000 households.

The jobless claims numbers come from state data from number of new unemployment insurance claims. Your article confirms that, and discusses how that number is skewed because California didn't submit that data.

Simply put, the unemployment rate and jobless claims number have nothing to do with each other in the way they are computed.

Look, if you want to say something is screwy with the 7.8% unemployment number, I agree with you. And the next unemployment rate report is issued 4 days before the election, and I think the headline will be, "Unemployment rate again at 8%," because the next household survey will not yield similar results.

Did you even read the article you linked? Like the big bold text that said: "ALL STATES WERE INCLUDED in this week's jobless claims. Assertions that "a large state" was excluded from the report are patently false."

The jobless number issue is unrelated to the unemployment rate. This is a different statistic from a different report (published weekly instead of monthly). It is referring to a report published today, not the one from last week (as the article also says, in the very first sentence).

The BLS is a nonpartisan agency who uses scientific method to come up with these numbers. Politicians play no role when it comes to determining the numbers.

If they did falsify report then it would be fair to say, perhaps all the prior reports were falsified too. So maybe Obama really did do much better than they claimed in the past. Or perhaps Clinton or Reagan did much worse.

Its preposterous to even make a claim that the numbers are fixed and doing so is just another distraction tactic people like to use to take away from the issues. Personally I think its getting old and wish people,would shut up and focus on real issues and stop creating false ones.

The article you cite does not support any conspiracy. It reveals a problem, yes. But hardly a "giant government and media conspiracy to falsify the Unemployment numbers exactly one month before obama's election."

No. Read your own article.

Republicans are proven liars. Reagan might not have been lying when he said he'd balance the budget by cutting taxes and increasing spending on defense because he was not that intelligent.

Romney KNOWS he is lying when he says he'll cut the deficit by cutting taxes, and increasing spending on defense and Medicare. He couldn't pass enough loophole closures in a Republican Congress known to be whores for special interest money which is freely available to keep loopholes open.

Why would they do that three weeks before an election???????????

Same old Liars...

Nothing is unlied about with the Liar and Chief OBAMA...

IMO

Here is Obama's reality to 77 million Americans....

Why not mention Unemployment that has been over 8% for 95% of Obama's term..

As a matter of fact lets look at the Obama DOL Numbers shall we... Yup We shall...

Did you know Obama cut the Bush Numbers in half the first months he was in office by re writing who was counted as unemployed? YUP he sure did… He said to his cronies @ the DOL to only count the New Signers to Unemployment as unemployed...

So in reality Obama's 7.8 is actually over 15%.. Getting the Message yet America??????? Let’s look at Obama's Purposely skewed Numbers shall we.. Yes we shall...

So if you want the real numbers you would double these numbers but... Of course you already knew this... Right?????????

I have kept track of these numbers the Obama DOL has released every Thursday @ 8:50AM every week for the last 34 weeks... Did you know these numbers have Averaged to over 400,000 New Signers to unemployment EVERY WEEK over Obama's entire term? They have that averaged TOTAL number I have listed below as well...

2/19/2012… 348,000 New Signers to Unemployment

2/26/2012… 350,000 New Signers to Unemployment

3/01/2012… 351,000 New Signers to Unemployment

3/08/2012… 361,000 New Signers to Unemployment

3/15/2012… 351,000 New Signers to Unemployment

3/22/2012… 348,000 New Signers to Unemployment

3/29/2012… 359,000 New Signers to Unemployment

4/05/2012… 357,000 New Signers to Unemployment

4/12/2012… 380,000 New Signers to Unemployment

4/19/2012… 386,000 New Signers to Unemployment

4/26/2012… 388,000 New Signers to Unemployment

5/03/2012… 365,000 New Signers to Unemployment

5/10/2012… 367,000 New Signers to Unemployment

5/17/2012… 370,000 New Signers to Unemployment

5/24/2012… 370,000 New Signers to Unemployment

5/31/2012… 383,000 New Signers to Unemployment

6/07/2012… 377,000 New Signers to Unemployment

6/14/2012… 386,000 New Signers to Unemployment

6/21/2012… 387,000 New Signers to Unemployment

6/28/2012… 386,000 New Signers to Unemployment

7/06/2012… 374,000 New Signers to Unemployment

7/12/2012… 350,000 New Signers to Unemployment

7/19/2012… 386,000 New Signers to Unemployment

7/26/2012… 353,000 New Signers to Unemployment

8/02/2012… 365,000 New Signers to Unemployment

8/09/2012… 361,000 New Signers to Unemployment

8/16/2012… 366,000 New Signers to Unemployment

8/23/2012… 372,000 New Signers to Unemployment

8/30/2012… 374,000 New Signers to Unemployment

9/06/2012… 369,000 New Signers to Unemployment

9/13/2012… 382,000 New Signers to Unemployment

9/20/2012… 382,000 New Signers to Unemployment

9/27/2012… 359,000 New Signers to Unemployment

10/04/2012… 367,000 New Signers to Unemployment

10/11/2012… 339,000 New Signers to Unemployment * California 25,000 30,000 additional New signers to be added... Hmmmm?

Sadly this amount of American LOST JOBS EVERY WEEK has become the norm… This needs to end NOW… Or our freedoms will be gone right before our eyes….

Total...... 11,790,000 New Signers to Unemployment.

That is….. 11 million 790 thousand jobs lost in the last 33 weeks. Is this Obama’s Legacy? Sharing the Poverty when he says Share the wealth…

**** For 82 out of the last 83 weeks after these numbers have been released they have been revised to a Higher number… Hmmmmmm… Is this just MORE LIES from the LIARS?….

Obama said yesterday he created 3.5 million jobs... Big Deal... That leaves more than double that number still without a job, 8 million 380 thousand are STILL without a job and that is “just over the last 33 weeks alone…”

Here is what Obama really created………. POVERTY...

How many “New Signers to Unemployment” have lost their jobs sense Obama’s election?

The 193 total weeks of the Obama term… that is 164 weeks of America’s New Signers to Unemployment has “averaged” over 400,000 jobs per week plus the last 34 weeks = (189 total) a 3 year + averaged number of New Signers to Unemployment is now around…

77, 732,000 Americans who have lost their jobs. THAT IS… 77 MILLION 732 THOUSAND New Signers to Unemployment under Obama’s watch……

This is “WITH a Full 2 YEARS of TOTAL CONTROL of ALL of the Federal Government Law making Process…” So who’s fault is it we have not turned the corner towards Job growth? GW Bush’s???? Ohhhhhhh REALLY???????

I think that's the initial jobless numbers released today, not the unemployment rate released last week...

When everything else fails then whatever is left is the truth....I have one question....If the unemployment problem was that easy to solve so quickly, why wasn't it done 2 years ago?

They are not lying. U6 unemployment, the real unemployment rate, has remained steady at 14.7%, but nobody ever uses that. U6 is released at the same time as the official U3 rate you referenced.

Yes. Governments have been lying to their populations for thousands of years, why would now be any different? Let's regain our common sense and start voting for smaller government.