HOW MANY U.S. JOBLESS?
HOW high is U.S. unemployment and how fast is it rising? The answer is of vital importance to the U.S. because a continued rise in unemployment would call for a radical change in Administration plans for taxes and spending. Yet the answers from the Administration's statisticians are more confusing than enlightening; their last estimates of unemployment (for January) ranged from 2,359,000 to 3,087,000, a difference of 728,000. Not one knows which figure to believe, and last week Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks was so disturbed that he had a panel of experts checking over the accuracy of the...