[ch4s3]

> Do you think side gigs are reported?

Yes. The FRED data includes informal employment. They do months and months of exhaustive surveys all of the country to put together their data.

> You quote unemployment numbers without admitting that people who have given up or simple failed to land a job are not included in those numbers.

No, I included data about labor force participation, which is only down a little.

> The numbers are gamed

Prove it.

[lowbloodsugar]

I mean, everything you just said is trivially refutable with just Google. FRED data isn’t the governments unemployment figures. FRED data relies on people to self report their side gigs that they aren’t paying taxes on? It is a known gap.

[senordevnyc]

Ah. So you’re fine with sources, but just the ones that support your position.

[ch4s3]

My source of is FRED, the other poster is just wrong about FRED data.

[ch4s3]

Then try to refute it. All of my number came from FRED.