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This is weird, and the opposite of a famous error that historians of the Great Depression used to make 1/ politico.com/story/2019/01/…
For a long time people used to use a series that considered those who were on programs like the WPA or CCC unemployed, even though they received paychecks and did productive work. 2/ fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/mel…
Now they're going to count people who aren't being paid -- even if they're eventually supposed to get money back -- and not doing work as employed. Pretty misleading 3/
