Unemployment rates are severely under tracked.

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I claim that the unemployment rates are increasing all the time as technology efficiency increases. There is just not enough jobs to go around to have unemployment rates to fall below 10%. The made up government unemployment rates are nothing more than a propaganda tool. 

You do a job for 20 years and technology makes your position redundant. Employers are reluctant to take on employees over the aged of 40.