While politicians keep telling us that the unemployment picture is improving, a quick look at the numbers for home, auto, and retail sales, as well as the consumer confidence index paints a different picture. With millions of unemployed and millions more underemployed, we may be bleeding jobs less rapidly, but we’re far from being “on track.”
Take a look at the following graphs from Calculated Risk; they paint the real unemployment picture, a stark portrayal of how far we’ve fallen and how far we have yet to go.


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