[TonyInOhio]

Bad.

[magellan]

Fewer jobs but U3 drops to 8.1%? Orwellian.

[9YearLurker]

The fix is in. They’ll force a 7.9% report by October at the latest, truth be damned!

[SeekAndFind]

John Kerry, 3/6/2004:

“President Bush has overpromised and underdelivered on job growth.” Unemployment rate then: 5.6%

John Kerry 05/04/2012 : SILENT

[ScottinVA]

Let me guess.. the drop to 8.1% is a result of tens of thousands of potential workers being abducted by aliens.

These reports are getting downright comical.

[concerned about politics]

According to the Bureau of labor statistics, unemployment is at 14.5%.

A new record has also been set. 88.4 million people are not in the workforce.
Unless Washington has a remake, and the Oboma Administration is fired, things are going to get a lot worse.

Over the last 15 weeks, the revised numbers, those numbers reported in secret, have added 92 thousand more unemployed people that go unnoticed.

[magellan]

Read this:

The Addbacks: +22K From Seasonal; +206K From Birth Death

The seasonal addback in April was +22K, a rapid break from the last 3 years when April saw a negative seasonal adjustment following the traditional huge positive adjustments in the January-March period, which in turn means that the record warm winter give back has not even started! As a result, the seasonal addbacks in 2012 are now a massive 4,499,000 jobs: jobs that have not been added but are expected to materialize based on historical seasonal patterns. And just as importantly, in April the Birth-Death addition was a whopping 206K, far greater than the comparable addition in 2010 and 2011, and much bigger than expected, which brings the year total now to a +20K cumulative total. It means, that by rough estimation, the reality is that in April the unadjusted, unbirth/deathed number was a decline of -111,000, and likely far worse once the true weather adjustments start taking place. This number is corroborated by the Household Survey which dropped by 169,000. So much for the recovery.

They are definitely cooking the books.

[magellan]

More insight from ZeroHedge:

Unemployment by race/ethnicity:

Asians - 5.2%

Whites - 7.4%

Hispanics - 10.3%

Blacks - 13.0%

At some point, the radical left will go after Asians like they go after Jews today.

Another tidbit:

Adult unemployment by gender:

Adult Women - 7.4%

Adult Men - 7.5%

[Wyatt's Torch]

People Not In Labor Force Soar By 522,000, Labor Force

Participation Rate Lowest Since 1981

it is just getting sad now. In April the number of people not in the labor force rose by a whopping 522,000 from 87,897,000 to 88,419,000. This is the highest on record. The flip side, and the reason why the unemployment dropped to 8.1% is that the labor force participation rate just dipped to a new 30 year low of 64.3%.

Labor force participation Rate:

People not in labor force:

[ScottinVA]

Now... if Mitt Romney really had the desire to win in November, he’d use THIS month’s report as a policy springboard in a major speech to explain why that 8.1% number is illusory, make the point that America is far more capable than it’s showing to create employment... and couch those points in a larger vision of where he wants to take this country economically... with specifics detailing how he intends to get it done

He needs make it clear to a national audience (NOT waiting ‘til the convention) that we are all seeing very clear choices.

But... he won’t.

[Wyatt's Torch]

[FlingWingFlyer]

What caused the .1% drop? The “unseasonably warm” winter or “seasonably warm” spring?

[mandaladon]

Voodoo math. The only reason the unemployment rate continues to drop is because millions who want to work have stopped looking and are no longer counted as unemployed. Failure = success (at least in the eyes of the MSM).

[Lmo56]

THIS is what the MSM SHOULD be reporting - IF they had any integrity ...

Employment status:

1. Civilian noninstitutional population went from 242,604,000 in March to 242,784,000 in April. This is an INCREASE of 180,000.

2. Civilian labor force went from 154,707,000 in March to 154,365,000 in April. This is a DECREASE of -342,000.

3. Participation rate went from 63.8% in March to 63.6% in April. This is a DECREASE of -0.2%.

4. Employed went from 142,034,000 in March to 141,865,000 in April. This is a DECREASE of -169,000.

5. Employment-population ratio went from 58.5% in March to 58.4% in April. This is a DECREASE of -0.1%.

6. Unemployed went from 12,673,000 in March to 12,500,000 in April. This is a DECREASE of -173,000.

7. Unemployment rate went from 8.2% in March to 8.1% in April. This is a DECREASE of -0.1%.

8. Not in labor force went from 87,897,000 in March to 88,419 ,000 in April. This is an INCREASE of 522,000.

*****

Persons not in the labor force (not seasonally adjusted)

1. Marginally attached to the labor force went from 2,352,000 in March to 2,363,000 in April. This is an INCREASE of 11,000.

2. Discouraged workers went from 865,000 in March to 968,000 in April. This is an INCREASE of 103,000.

[fwdude]

Oh, no!!! We have offended the Great God “EXPECTED.”

[Anti-Bubba182]

Data extracted on: May 4, 2012 (9:50:23 PM)

Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National)

Series Id:     CES0500000001
Seasonally Adjusted
Super Sector:  Total private
Industry:      Total private
NAICS Code:    -
Data Type:     ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS

Download:

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
2002	109214	109055	108990	108894	108814	108826	108731	108675	108663	108771	108757	108587
2003	108644	108487	108288	108254	108273	108234	108232	108264	108425	108568	108605	108713
2004	108883	108915	109214	109437	109747	109841	109882	109984	110136	110463	110490	110623
2005	110718	110949	111094	111440	111583	111844	112124	112311	112395	112491	112795	112935
2006	113250	113535	113793	113958	113965	114045	114203	114348	114434	114439	114628	114794
2007	115023	115080	115252	115298	115419	115480	115476	115403	115423	115484	115559	115606
2008	115647	115511	115399	115184	114968	114737	114478	114184	113759	113279	112482	111824
2009	110985	110260	109473	108671	108359	107933	107637	107418	107234	107002	106960	106840
2010	106800	106773	106914	107107	107191	107283	107375	107503	107618	107814	107948	108088
2011	108207	108464	108725	108989	109097	109199	109374	109426	109642	109781	109959	110193
2012	110470	110724	110890(P)	111020(P)
P : preliminary

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Series Id:     CES9000000001
Seasonally Adjusted
Super Sector:  Government
Industry:      Government
NAICS Code:    -
Data Type:     ALL EMPLOYEES, THOUSANDS

Download:

Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual
2002	21377	21390	21431	21443	21514	21549	21544	21589	21546	21559	21581	21588
2003	21626	21624	21610	21595	21567	21606	21633	21556	21504	21558	21535	21546
2004	21538	21550	21588	21614	21614	21601	21606	21626	21635	21656	21692	21693
2005	21735	21744	21740	21754	21781	21763	21857	21863	21845	21829	21859	21879
2006	21847	21878	21903	21919	21926	21922	21973	22011	22082	22068	22083	22088
2007	22095	22131	22149	22175	22193	22207	22171	22226	22279	22297	22334	22376
2008	22376	22428	22445	22452	22478	22511	22560	22580	22573	22564	22558	22555
2009	22576	22577	22565	22675	22626	22570	22527	22515	22500	22530	22530	22479
2010	22479	22471	22519	22565	22997	22738	22588	22409	22267	22291	22278	22258
2011	22249	22212	22197	22184	22130	22112	22033	22066	22052	22025	22004	21993
2012	21991	21996	21984(P)	21969(P)
P : preliminary

There were more people working when Obama took office than are working now. (1/2009 vs 4/2012)

[emax]

Do conservatives have a culprit that they can demonstrate to people is causing the economy to stagnate like this ? How can they convince ordinary Americans that the economy is not improving like they might think it is and how can they prove that it actually isnt Wall Street and the CEOs and Conservative corporations not paying enough taxes that is causing this, but rather too much govt interference and Americans having to pull the weight of unproductive people in our society ? Remember, they need to be able to be convincing enough to counter Obama, that means conservatives need undeniable, unrefutable proof here; they are going up against a leader who can make them believe he can singlehandedly cure all of their cancers and bring the dead to life.