Not particularly relevant to the case you’re trying to make. You are aware that there are other statistics than federal ones, that states keep their own unemployment statistics, that the federal number doesn’t pretend to be a one stop shopping metric for employment, right? I come from a high employment state, Utah, and we are almost always ahead of most, if not all states in employment. No doubt if I lived in West Virginia that would be very different, granted. The federal number is now and has been for many years a gross metric, not a regional or particularly granular one, though within the BLS monthly reports are many more granular statistics, for those who are interested. Your essay reads like a hit piece that condemns what it also employs, a cherry picked and under reported analysis. One thing the BLS reports attempt to do over the broad sweep of years is to compare apples to apples to identify general trends. I think they succeed pretty well.