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Politics, 'economic illiteracy' hurting fiscal recovery, say local experts

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Andrew Keatts, SAN DIEGO DAILY TRANSCRIPT

Thursday, October 27, 2011

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Both Dan Seiver, professor in the finance department at San Diego State University, and Kelly Cunningham, economist and senior fellow at the National University System Institute for Policy Research, countered that the unemployment rate also discounts the underemployed and those who’ve either given up looking for work or who are working part-time jobs but would like full-time employment, which would at least mitigate the effect of those in the military and coming from Mexico who aren’t counted in San Diego’s jobless rate.