Gallop poll finds unemployment spiking in the last 30 days...

Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen in Chicago, 1931

We have to hope this is a polling anomaly, but Gallop is using a 30,000 adult sample and rolling 30 day average....

Via Breitbart:

Outside of the federal government’s Bureau of Labor statistics, the Gallup polling organization also tracks the nation’s unemployment rate. While the BLS and Gallup findings might not always perfectly align, the trends almost always do and the small statistical differences just haven’t been worthy of note. But now Gallup is showing a sizable 30 day jump in the unemployment rate, from 7.7% on July 21 to 8.9% today.

This is an 18-month high.

At the end of July, the BLS showed a 7.4% unemployment rate, compared to Gallup’s 7.8%. Again, a difference not worthy of note. But Gallup’s upward trend to almost 9% in just the last three weeks is alarming, especially because this is not a poll with a history of wild swings due to statistical anomalies. Gallup’s sample size is  a massive 30,000 adults and the rolling average is taken over a full 30 day period.

Are the effects of Obamacare and excessive government regulations beginning to take a massive toll?