NYT Gets Germany's Unemployment Rate Wrong, Again

People who report on Germany's economy should know that the unemployment rate reported by the government is not calculated the same way as the U.S. unemployment rate. It includes people who are working part-time but would like full-time jobs as being unemployed. This means that the rate reported by the government is not directly comparable to the U.S. rate. This means that the NYT misled readers when it told them that Germany's unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent in January.

However, the...