Get Your Facts Straight!

The statistics are in. The American workforce has now reached a record high unemployment rate 9.5% according to the Department of Labor statistics for the month of June. This would cause many people to worry and panic. What does this means for you? It would seem as if almost one out of every ten American is unemployed. That individual could be someone you know; hey, it could even be you. We face it as we read the daily newspaper and watch the news. There are pieces of important details that the media leave out in the reports we read and hear. Let us take that very same statistic of the 9.5% of the American workforce who are unemployed. Did you know that there are individuals who work on an academic contractual basis and laid-off in June, just to become rehired again in the fall? Technically unemployed but not really. Considering the amount of educational contracts with non-profit partner agencies across the country, that is many people to help bring that statistic up. This example only includes one of the many examples that play in the factor of the numbers being so high in the mist of the recession.

You as an individual have to be rational and resourceful in determining the type of information that you take in. It help shape and frame your mindset. It has to be filtered with the lenses of the truth and what you believe to be true for yourself. Part of my favorite quote is“…. Circumstances and statistics may reveal the facts, but ultimately I choose my destiny.” Yes as an African American woman growing up in NYC there were many statistics rooting against my success, however it was up to me to accept the TRUTH for what I believe in myself and where I want to end up. Yes, the statistics were the facts, but it was not my truth.

Aspire. Create. Develop.

Shemeka Peters