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Topic: Why the unemployment rate
won't keep dropping |
Why the unemployment rate
won't keep dropping
Fortune, by Stephen Gandel
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Posted By:Photoonist, 10/7/2012 2:57:12 PM
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| It was either an average month for job growth, or one of the best months in nearly three decades. In the September jobs numbers, there was evidence for both. Last month, employers said they added 114,000 workers to their payrolls. Not fast by any means, but not bad. (Snip) The numbers come from a survey of individuals. The unemployment rate can go down because more people have jobs. Great. But it can also go down if a growing number of people say they have given up looking for work. Not so great. And for much of the past year the
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Comments:
The employment report was a head fake. The US has the smallest workforce by percentage in decades but unemployment is allegedly down? The Labor Dept. scammed people by adding a mysterious 86,000 jobs to the past 2 months and we don't know what they did with the household survey, but surely something is going on here too. Article is WRONG in saying the unemployment rate had been inflated. The large number of people going on disability proves this conclusion is incorrect. 0bama has created a new kind of ''disappeared'' in counting the unemployed.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
NMPatriot, 10/7/2012 3:57:41 PM (No. 8916312)
The timing alone is cause to verify the math. The math doesn't work out. This is pure political manipulation! Comrade ObaMao should have to look all 23 million people in the face who would and should be working but aren't because of his destructive policies and tell them unemployment is at 7.8%.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
66Strat, 10/7/2012 4:06:01 PM (No. 8916325)
Here's why: There are no jobs. Doh!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wtm, 10/7/2012 4:12:54 PM (No. 8916341)
But, you can expect that on November 1st that the jobs report will be at least 4.8% by then !!!! /s off
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Spidey, 10/7/2012 4:18:39 PM (No. 8916351)
Obama wouldn't be able to explain the rate dropping unless he had some phony hiring numbers.It's even possible there's some early part time hiring for Christmas which has nothing to do with economic growth but hope for big retail.
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