• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Is that backed up by statistics or just vibes?

    COVID saw unemployment peak at 15%. I haven’t seen anything remotely that bad.

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      3 days ago

      Archived link: https://archive.ph/TEM72

      There are a number of data points discussed in the article, including self-report surveys and BLS data. I would hesitate to riff off any title of a news article, though, they’re often not written by the article’s author and are purposefully written to drive engagement

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        3 days ago

        (not who you’re replying to) I read the beginning of the article, it seemed it was going off subjective information. “It feels worse”. I tried to go back and got pay walled, so unfortunately I couldn’t read it. What information are you suggesting they missed out on? They’re asking for objective data, which is totally fair

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          2 days ago

          The article is literally about workers’ opinions based on conducted polls, so the title is accurate. Whether or not these agree with labor statistics collected by an increasingly dubious government is a different subject.