<..."These estimates are obviously contradictory," said George Zeller, an economic research analyst in Cleveland. "You can't have a decline of 600,000 unemployed workers who got 36,000 jobs."...</p>
Even the government's own figures showed that unemployment might be as high as 16.1 percent if you included discouraged job-seekers.
John Williams, a San Francisco area economist who runs the website shadowstats.com, estimates January's unemployment rate at 22.2 percent. He said the government's highest estimate doesn't take into account people who have been unemployed more than a year.
"They have stopped looking for work, but they meet all the other qualifications of wanting to be employed and able to work," Williams said. "They just haven't looked for work because there is no work to be had." ...
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