If you’re unemployed for more than six months, you are termed “Long Term Unemployed” and you go onto a second set of stats that the Department of Labor misinterprets for the media to favor the current occupant of the Oval Office.
The real numbers get given to the top 10% of the White House staff so that they can formulate a program to try and win your vote.
The Obama administration unveiled Wednesday the expansion of its efforts to aid the long-term unemployed with grants to help get the jobless back into the workplace.
President Barack Obama in January launched an effort to remove obstacles for the long-term unemployed, getting major corporations to adopt “best practices†in human-resources departments designed to ensure the long-time jobless aren’t screened out of the possibility of face-to-face employment interviews.
On Wednesday, the Labor Department announced 23 grants given to 20 states and Puerto Rico to attack the problem of long-term unemployed, which numbered 3 million through September, the latest reading. The grants will be used by local organizations and governments to match jobless workers with sectors that need workers.
I’m not a gambling man, so I may get the terminology wrong, but is there an over/under on how many of these organizations are staffed with former ACORN employees?
No bet, whatever the line you offer is.
Well, maybe, if your number is best expressed in scientific notation.
All of them.