US unemployment data fail to capture COVID-19's full impact – here's how to fix it fast
- Written by Julia Lane, Professor of Economics, New York University
Unemployed airline workers call for an extension of federal benefits.Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed dangerous weaknesses in America’s aging public data system. In one of the greatest jobs crises in the past 100 years, the labor force measures of employment and unemployment are too slow, not local and too often...
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