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Forbes managing editor Bruce Upbin noted that a chart featured in Hanauer's talk displayed incorrect data, showing unemployment increasing steadily from 5.6% in 1995 to 9.3% in 2009, while in reality, unemployment had been below 5% as recently as early 2008.

Was the data incorrect? I've seen this argument over the "true" unemployment numbers for years, and it's never been resolved. We know, for example, that many of these statistics can be twisted depending on who is included or excluded. One of the biggest criticisms of government data, for example, is that it downplays certain categories based on out of date metrics. For example, the poverty index is notoriously 60 or so years out of date in the US, and the true poverty numbers are totally unknown because the government doesn't update their metrics. So they can continue to claim that poverty is low, but the fact is they have almost no standing to make this claim. This was a topic of some discussion for the last two years. I suspect the unemployment numbers are no different. I am highly skeptical of the use of the Forbes source here, considering the quality of their reporting over the last decade has been described as unreliable, bordering on outright fantasy. Viriditas (talk) 23:47, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

A quick search shows that the data was correct and that the Forbes source is wrong, as I initially suspected. I will therefore remove the Forbes claim. Viriditas (talk) 00:12, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

• "In 2009, the national annual unemployment rate was 9.3%. Five of the 50 largest metropolitan areas had unemployment rates over 11.3%—2 percentage points above the national rate—while seven experienced rates that were less than 7.3%—2 percentage points below the national rate."

Viriditas (talk) 00:16, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Why has Hanauer become so much less visible?

That's the question I was trying to get an answer for, but found no hints on the Article side. His message certainly seemed to be more visible to me, but then... I expected to find out that he'd died some years ago, but that isn't the reason. Shanen (talk) 17:29, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

COI Disclosure: Recent updates to Hanauer page

Hey all—dropping a note here to be transparent that I just pushed a few significant updates to Nick’s page.

Full disclosure: I’m a consultant for Nick and Civic Ventures. I’m well aware of the COI guidelines here, so I’ve done my best to keep the tone strictly encyclopedic and neutral. The page had honestly just fallen out of date, so I wanted to get his current work and the latest Pitchfork Economics efforts properly cited and live.

I’ve mostly focused on:

• Refreshing the career milestones with recent, third-party sources.
• Cleaning up a handful of dead links that were cluttering things up.
• Stripping out anything that felt even remotely like "PR speak" to keep it NPOV.

Since I have a professional tie to the subject, I’d actually appreciate it if the regular editors here could give my changes a once-over. If anything I added feels too "promotional" or doesn't meet the bar, please let me know here on the talk page. I’d much rather discuss the phrasing with you guys than get into any back-and-forth on the main article.

Thanks, Sam [Markets4Humans]

Markets4Humans (talk) 23:08, 20 March 2026 (UTC)