Friday, October 19, 2012

Unexpectedly!

California Official Who Misreported Unemployment Is Obama Donor : The Other McCain
Marty Morgenstern, the secretary of the California agency that substantially under-reported unemployment claims last week, contributed to President Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election campaign, The Daily Caller has learned.
Comrade Morgenstern donated a total of $4800 to His Imperial Majesty's election campaign in 2008, the maximum legally allowed.

More links at the link; from The Daily Caller:
On Oct. 11, the federal government reported that weekly jobless claims were down significantly, suggesting a dramatic national increase in economic growth and a steep decline in layoffs.  Jobless claims, according to the Labor Department, had fallen by 30,000 to 339,000, their lowest level since February 2008.
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Early Thursday, the federal government finally revealed that California had, in fact, under-reported jobless data, skewing the national jobless claims results. This week’s updated jobs report corrected the error and showed unemployment claims spiking back up by 46,000 to 388,000.
h/t Bill.

1 comment:

DaddyBear said...

Surprise, surprise, surprise! It'll probably just be called a typo or a rounding error.