The US BLS released new employment situation numbers today that show no net increase in unemployment.  Yet, they are also showing a 0.5% drop in the participation rate, and that over 1 million people were pulled from the labor force statistics.  If we added in that them back into the labor force as unemployed, that would bump the U-3 rate up another 0.73 % from 6.0% to 6.73%.

Am I reading this right?

Did they seriously just fudge the numbers to show an almost full point increase in unemployment as a net decrease over the last month?

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg