NPR, August 6, 2011, Saturday

NPR

August 6, 2011, Saturday

NPR (full article)

Jobless Numbers Don't Tell The Whole Story
by Sonari Glinton

The unemployment number is a fraction. The top number — the numerator — is "the number of people who are looking for a job and don't have one," explains Linda Barrington, a labor economist with the Institute for Compensation Studies at Cornell University.