Comment Re: Simsalabim, Election year layoffs are imaginar (Score 1) 51
"It's almost as if there was an election looming and someone was trying to juice the numbers..."
Oh, my sweet, summer child. The numbers are the same lie under every president, except that they become a bigger lie as things get worse. Trump benefited from the same bullshit math that is benefiting Biden now. And before them, etc etc. They don't have to do anything special because the lie is baked in. Once you're no longer eligible for UIB you fall off of the unemployment stats. That means six months out of work and they pretend you're dead. And you might as well be, because you're dead to them if you aren't producing tax revenue.