Categories Burlington Iowa Local News Political West Burlington Gallup CEO: 5.6% Unemployment is ‘The Big Lie’ Post author By Falcon Post date February 3, 2015 Click here: Here’s something that many Americans — including some of the smartest and most educated among us — don’t know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading. There’s no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie. ← ‘Selfies’ turn deadly in Colorado → Central Lee tops W.B., 60-34