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U.S. adds 303,000 jobs in March as unemployment rate dips
axios ^ | 04/05/2024 | Neil Irwin

Posted on 04/05/2024 5:50:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Job growth surged in March, as employers added 303,000 positions and the unemployment rate edged down, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Why it matters: The U.S. labor market has proved remarkably resilient over the last year, as employers keep seeking workers despite a bumpy economic environment. The latest numbers affirm that strength, handily beating analysts' forecasts.

By the numbers: The jobless rate fell as more people entered the work force — a good sign for growth potential.

The labor force participation rate rose by 0.2 percentage points to 62.7%. Average hourly earnings were up 0.3%, and are up 4.1% over the last year. The biggest categories of job gains were health care (up 81,300 jobs) and government (up 71,000). Zoom out: Revisions pushed January and February's already-strong job growth numbers higher yet, by 22,000 additional positions.

(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dips; jobs; jobsreport; march; rate
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Will be revised in 3,2,1...
1 posted on 04/05/2024 5:50:52 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As usual, the devil, and Deep State, are in the details...

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm


2 posted on 04/05/2024 5:53:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Check out this bit, from the BLS link above...

“...In March, employment in government increased by 71,000, higher than the average monthly gain of 54,000 over the prior 12 months. Over the month, employment increased in local government (+49,000) and federal government (+9,000)...”


3 posted on 04/05/2024 5:55:01 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

crappola.


4 posted on 04/05/2024 5:55:59 AM PDT by wny
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The BLS cooked the books for Obama too. Same old scam.


5 posted on 04/05/2024 5:59:11 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: ChicagoConservative27

6 posted on 04/05/2024 6:07:31 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Are Migrants counted?


7 posted on 04/05/2024 6:08:13 AM PDT by FreedBird
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Part-time and seasonal jobs?
Most likely.


8 posted on 04/05/2024 6:08:54 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Joetato spooling up for the election.


9 posted on 04/05/2024 6:09:40 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: mewzilla

Government spending/hiring.


10 posted on 04/05/2024 6:10:04 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Created a Make Work Program for their Illegals , you stay there we’ll pay you and we’ll count it as jobs ,LOL


11 posted on 04/05/2024 6:10:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Leaning Right

They only tell us what they want us to believe.


12 posted on 04/05/2024 6:12:30 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ROTFLMAO! Yeah, okay. And chickens have lips.


13 posted on 04/05/2024 6:13:08 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I can't wait until the "media" is printing headlines like, "Trump Reverses Biden-era Policy.")
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“Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for Blacks (6.4 percent) increased in
March, while the rates for Asians (2.5 percent) and Hispanics (4.5 percent) decreased.”

I thought Bidenomics was supposed to help Black Americans ?


14 posted on 04/05/2024 6:19:19 AM PDT by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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Remove government jobs and the job growth is damn near negative.

Currently in construction in the SF bay area and the industry has never been this slow in the 30+ years I've been in it.
15 posted on 04/05/2024 6:21:25 AM PDT by glaseatr (Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And I’m Santa Clause.


16 posted on 04/05/2024 6:29:57 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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>Will be revised in 3,2,1..<

I wonder what the over under will be on corrections come June.

Last year the average adjustment was -51,000 jobs per month. This year started off with a bang with January’s original number of 353,000 being adjusted down by 124,000.

I wonder how Lucretia James would view this overvaluation of jobs.

Disclaimer: I am no economist and don’t believe any numbers the govt puts out. I don’t want to waste any time digging further. I have a pile of sand to move.

https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm

EC


17 posted on 04/05/2024 6:36:45 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lies and propaganda! The economic data doesn’t verify!


18 posted on 04/05/2024 6:40:17 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: mewzilla

The important detail is the numbers in services and in leisure and hospitality. They have either regained their pre covid numbers or are still below them. Proving that most job numbers for the last three years have simply brought us back to where we were in Feb 2020. It’s taken 3+ years to regain what was lost in six months. Not great. Not even good.


19 posted on 04/05/2024 6:40:59 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: ChicagoConservative27

People working multiple part time jobs to feed the family.....

While Biden puts money into donors and illegals pockets, single mothers and ‘working’ people get to enjoy ‘job’ slavery to pay the way. Steal from the poor to give to the rich, Biden is a reverse Robin Hood.


20 posted on 04/05/2024 6:44:05 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan (Repeatedl)
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