When the U.S. government’s official jobs report for May came out on Friday, it included a note at the bottom saying there had been a major “error” indicating that the unemployment rate likely should be higher than the widely reported 13.3 percent rate.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
A ‘misclassification error’ made the May unemployment rate look better than it is. Here’s what happened.
By Heather Long
June 6, 2020 at 10:57 a.m. EDT