The Southeast Texas Political Review has learned and confirmed this morning from a high ranking Texas Workforce Commission representative that the unemployment rate in Jefferson County has now hit 20%. The rate, and not the public rate announced to the media, is the "adjusted rate" using numbers from those that have (1) given up on reporting, (2) benefits that have run out, (3) taken part time employment, (4) moved out of the area, (5) attempting to start their own businesses.Been there, done that, invented the DQ Index ©. Typically, Klein's predicts shock and awe:
This shock report will be announced in the next few weeks - and will rock the political world.Find the real facts about the U-6 rate here. See the national monthly U-6 here. Check the monthly data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
My Open Letter to Philip Klein from Monday (see below) apparently didn't meet PRK's exacting editorial standards for his Reader Mail page. He did make this comment concerning the Klein Booby Hatch Investigation:
According to the General Counsels office that I have been dealing with - if you are an EMPLOYEE of the taxing unit (school district, county, city) and that county benefits or receives money from the federal government in grants or loans or awards - you must resign from your job to run for that said office. There are some exemptions - but those are for city municipal governments or current elected officials (imagine that).According to the Office of Special Counsel that I've been dealing with:
The Merit Systems Protection Board has held that the test of whether an employee is covered by the Hatch Act is whether, as a normal and foreseeable incident of his principal employment, the employee performs duties in connection with an activity financed in whole or in part by federal funds. Special Counsel v. Gallagher, 44 M.S.P.R. 57, 61 (1990).Klein also admitted he was confused in another "reader mail:"
"....so why don't you file on who you say broke the law?"Let me answer that. Philip has a civic duty to report violations of the Hatch Act. So, where's the beef,?
Answer : I don't know that it is our responsibility.
2 comments:
He's distorting the unemployment statistics once more, fussing about insurance cards and lecturing Brent Weaver. I sense Philip is trying to forget that he ever mentioned the Hatch Act.
What about that "big story" on the big money in Lumberton he promised to publish...last week.
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