PHONY UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES UPDATE: As I promised yesterday, here's George Zeller's whole explanation of why the State of Ohio's employment and unemployment figures for Cleveland are "phony", now posted as a page of my Cleveland Wages Pages site. Here's a sample:

...You can say with accuracy that right now we are seeing 1,546 Cuyahoga County workers laid off EVERY WEEK, a figure that is twice as high as it was four years ago. You won't find any unemployment figures anywhere that will say that the Cuyahoga County unemployment rate has doubled over what it was four years ago, but it has actually done so. That's about as close as anybody can get to a precise figure on this issue.