US unemployment data fail to capture COVID-19's full impact – here's how to fix it fast
Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - 08:20
in Mathematics & Economics
The 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 unreliable and irrelevant.