What is the real employment rate? I think the PNM should come forward and clear the air in the light of some conflicting reports that are emerging. The Central Statistics office list the official rate at 10.6( see Express of 2-5-3) Prime Minister Patrick Manning is saying 9.7 and I swear that any one in New York who heard John D last week in New York heard another figure . I agree though that it is single digits now, but nothing to boast about really. The PNM must come clean and state where have these jobs been created and I hope it is not in NHA where the PNM employed a number of people a la UNC road paving style to paint the building in our local "projects". Those of us who care about accuracy and transparency need an explanation, otherwise, we are still under the UNC syndrome.