Yet another apples to oranges comparison.
From your previous attempt:
"The change will not affect how the unemployed are counted or the unemployment rate is computed . . ."
From this one:
"Though Hall now works for the Mercatus Center, a right-wing think tank at George Mason University partially funded by the billionaire Koch Brothers (Charles Koch sits on its board), he is not suggesting that the BLS is cooking the books, as Jack Welch and other conservatives have suggested."
People sitting on the sidelines in despair of finding a job are not, nor have they been previously, part of the official figure. He wishes it were so, but it just isn't - and hasn't been.
From a link in that article:
"Hall confirms that the jobless rate that makes the headlines ? called the U-3 by BLS ? doesn?t take into account people who have stopped looking for work but does count as employed folks who have worked as little as an hour during the preceding month.
A broader (and more accurate) measure of the state of US labor ? called U-6, which includes the underemployed ? jumped sharply in June to 14.3 percent from 13.8 percent the month before."
Yep, apples and oranges and if wishes was fishes we'd all castinet (clickety click).
So, my statement about Burford's lie still stands.