[expat_panama]

5.6%. LOL! Yeah! Right.

It is right and we have to deal with it.  It's also irrelevant and the leftists have to deal with that.  The rest of the BLS report shows

--that 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.

[kabar]

Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for adult women (5.0 percent) decreased by 0.2 percentage point in December, while the rates for adult men (5.3 percent), teenagers (16.8 percent), whites (4.8 percent), blacks (10.4 percent), and Hispanics (6.5 percent) showed little change. The jobless rate for Asians, at 4.2 percent (not seasonally adjusted), changed little from a year earlier. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)

The civilian labor force participation rate edged down by 0.2 percentage point to 62.7 percent in December. Since April, the participation rate has remained within a narrow range of 62.7 to 62.9 percent. In December, the employment- population ratio was 59.2 percent for the third consecutive month. However, the employment-population ratio is up by 0.6 percentage point over the year. (See table A-1.)

[SoFloFreeper]

....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.

[Luigi Vasellini]

BLS report number fraud bump