COLUMN: Salem is adding jobs, but unemployment is rising. Why?
The Salem economy has added jobs consistently over the last seven months, but the unemployment rate crept upward for a number of months during the same period, a contradictory situation. What was going on?
The short answer is that the jobs numbers and the unemployment rate are compiled from two separate surveys, each with a different purpose.
What this means is that it pays to know a few facts about how the two surveys are…
