Gosh, it's almost as if there were some kind of nationwide, once-a-year, special demand for hired help in the retail sector.
When you add and compare increases in working age population, and total population (including legal and illegal immigration) to those statistics, what number of monthly job increases is required to just ‘keep up’?
It strikes me as the magical “once every four years everything is rosy” season.
Phony numbers in a couple of ways.
How many of these “new” hires were actually second jobs for those already employed? And how many of them were full-time jobs, as contrasted to “part-time”, less than 20 hours per week? Did ANY of them confer additional benefits, such as health insurance, or sick leave, or vacation time? And how many extended past December 25th?
Also, how many persons became ELIGIBLE to enter the workplace in that period of time? The employment figures are not even keeping up with population increase, especially considering the numbers now swarming INTO the country, from legal, illegal, and “refugee” status.
I wonder how many of these “jobs” are multiple part-time positions, how many are minimum wage, how many are temporary seasonal, how many went to foreigners including illegals, and how many are a complete accounting fiction. I’d guess few pay well employing US citizens.
Then add in the over 350,000 temp UPS, FedX and formerly laid off postal workers to deliver the Christmas packages bought on line.
How many workers lost their 40 hour work week due to Obama Care and are now working at two jobs? Many of those were probably counted as two new jobs or at minimum 1 new job.
Actually, that happens in October. Jobs and employment almost always go down in December.
It’s almost like citizens bought more stuff toward the end of the year... What could possibly cause that? It’s a mystery alright...