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Unemployment rate drops to 5.6% as economy creates 252,000 jobs
MSNBC ^

Posted on 01/09/2015 6:01:54 AM PST by God luvs America

The U.S. economy added 252,000 jobs in December, sending the unemployment rate down to 5.6%. The latest jobs numbers continue a streak of strong economic growth, which has seen the unemployment rate drop 0.2 points in the last two months alone.


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To: God luvs America

In November 2012, when none of their sycophants in the media called them out for juicing the numbers by dialing the participation to whatever they want, they realized they could keep doing it.

The best proof of their lies is how welfare enrollment matched the job declines and hasn’t changed much since. Real unemployment is still near the original high.


21 posted on 01/09/2015 6:38:21 AM PST by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Well, it will create another 10,000 jobs and the rate will be 0.0%! Fun with numbers by the communist party.


22 posted on 01/09/2015 6:41:24 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Bogey78O

Real EMployment is at a 38-year low.


23 posted on 01/09/2015 6:42:35 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ExTxMarine

That is what I am seeing in the Chicago suburbs. I know more people with “temporary” jobs than permanent jobs. Some of them have been at those temp jobs for over 10 years now.


24 posted on 01/09/2015 6:54:32 AM PST by trubolotta
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To: God luvs America

Mt A$$!! Its more like 15.6%. Just look at the want ads in your local newspaper.


25 posted on 01/09/2015 6:55:52 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Some people say that experts agree!!)
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To: God luvs America

I started looking for a job 1.5 years ago (1 if you discount the time off for major medical issues).

But I am not ON “Unemployment”, so I don’t count in these stats.

I could easily get a menial job, but I am trying to get back into the professions.


26 posted on 01/09/2015 6:59:51 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: God luvs America

Unemployment down to 5.6%? Oh, puhleese.

27 posted on 01/09/2015 7:01:58 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: expat_panama
....while the number of employed increased 111,000, the population increased 183,000 and the labor force shrank 456,000. Figures don't lie but liars figure; we may be better off a tad but we're still far worse off than we once were and where we should be by now.

Bada bing.

28 posted on 01/09/2015 7:02:53 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: God luvs America

As bad, stating the number of jobs created. It was recently admitted that virtually all of those new jobs created went to foreign nationals, legal and illegal.

What’s it going to take for the American public to finally press the reset button on this criminal party, their leaders, and the RINO GOPe?


29 posted on 01/09/2015 7:04:01 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: CommieCutter

“They keep telling us how bad it was during Bush”

Oh, I get sick of these accusations:

“Bush had us in a recession in 2001!” No, he inherited a recent recession under Klintoon.

Then, when Bush got the same kind of problem at the end of his tenure, just like Billy - last few months started recession after 8 years in office - libs EXTENDED how long that recession was BACKWARDS as if Bush had it the whole time!

Same situation, but always Bush’s fault!


30 posted on 01/09/2015 7:04:24 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Marie

God, that sounds like my nephew. He always goes back to pizza delivery when he’s having trouble.

(I wish he had stuck with McDonald’s management track, but, hey, it’s my nephew!)


31 posted on 01/09/2015 7:13:05 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: God luvs America

93 MILLION Americans OUT OF THE WORKFORCE, and they claim a decrease in jobless numbers....


32 posted on 01/09/2015 7:13:30 AM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: bray

Um, not in the oil fields. My neighbor’s company, oil related contractor, has been laying off 200 people a week since the oil price has been coming down.


33 posted on 01/09/2015 7:20:02 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: bray

To you and me..but to the LameStreetMedia(LSM) it means out of work voters..I mean workers..


34 posted on 01/09/2015 7:20:47 AM PST by Paul46360 (..)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It’s much closer to 15.6%.


35 posted on 01/09/2015 7:25:15 AM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

92.9 million people out of work and unemployment at 5.6%. What’s wrong with that picture?


36 posted on 01/09/2015 7:26:36 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

It will drop lower by the end of the year and the Dem candidate will campaign on FULL employment achieved!
The LIV are so gullible!


37 posted on 01/09/2015 7:26:39 AM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Mine’s trying to get into corrections and border patrol, but it takes months. In the meantime, he’s got to eat and pay rent.


38 posted on 01/09/2015 7:26:54 AM PST by Marie
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I can remember when Bush routinely had high GDP numbers and the Rats were saying it was the worst economy since Herbert Hoover.


39 posted on 01/09/2015 7:37:07 AM PST by CommieCutter
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To: God luvs America

100 Million not working


40 posted on 01/09/2015 7:43:57 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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