EDIT: I should add that a previous change in the unemployment calculation was made in 1983 at the behest of the Reagan administration. One of the changes was to count military personnel as 'employed' rather than leaving them out completely. This helped to juice the numbers as well.

Will, I remember when that was done. Since they are, demonstrably, employed...that change seemed then and still does now to more accurately reflect the economic situation. Don't you agree? I mean it does reflect a higher number, but isn't it a more reflective number of the real situation? Seems to me it is.

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