governments statistics are a sham.  inflation statistics are purposely kept low in order to keep mandated cola (cost of living allowance) increases of government salary and seniors pensions and by extension workers salaries in the private sector as close to negligible as possible.  the unemployment rate does not reflect long term systemic unemployment (you are counted unemployed only as long as you are collecting pogy.  after that, you don't register anywhere.  therefore you're no longer the governments worry.  and the government propaganda machine, lame stream media,  tells YOU it did a great job lowering the unemployment rate and feels no longer compelled to properly account for the plight of society thereafter.)