ILO be damned?

The latest data highlighted a diverging trend between the two main measures of unemployment. Neither measure is perfect, but at least the claimant count is timelier than the ILO measure. Until the ILO measure catches up, we are putting more weight on the former as a guide to the unemployment fallout so far.

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