Question

Read the following articles:

 

"Trump Campaign Revives Debate: Is the Unemployment Rate Artificial?" The Wall Street Journal

 

"What Is The Real Unemployment Rate?" FiveThirtyEight

 

After reading the articles, draft a response that addresses the controversy over unemployment statistics and how such discussions demonstrate the intersection between politics and economics in popular rhetoric. In this political season, what are the contrasting political messages concerning the unemployment rate, and how do these messages (perhaps) contrast with economists' contentions regarding unemployment?

 

Be sure to utilize in-text citations and brief bibliographic entries for any sources used.