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Economy Adds 223,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Rate at 5.4%
Fox Business News ^
| 05/08/2015
| By Dunstan Prial
Posted on 05/08/2015 6:43:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 05/08/2015 6:51:43 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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The economy added 223,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.4%, a rebound from the dismal March report that led to concerns the U.S. labor market was heading into a prolonged skid.
Economists were nearly spot on in their predictions of a gain of 224,000 and that the unemployment rate would dip to 5.4%.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: jobs; unemployment
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To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
TOTAL BS. The economy continues to LOSE jobs, not add them. These numbers are entirely made up.
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:45:50 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:46:01 AM PDT
by
alstewartfan
(It's the superannuation of a love affair that never quite got started. Al Stewart "Pictures in Wine")
To: SeekAndFind
Meanwhile, the labor force participation rate was virtually unchanged at 62.8%. When everyone gives up looking for work, I guess the unemployment rate would fall.
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:46:07 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: SeekAndFind
Never mind that nearly 100,000,000 working aged Americans aren’t included in this calculation.
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:46:35 AM PDT
by
Edgar3
(Libnorance is a mental disease, and it's getting Progressively worse!)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
I read the last unemployed guy just gave up looking for work. The Obama Administration celebrate 0% unemployment!!
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:47:22 AM PDT
by
Bucky14
(And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling kids!)
To: SeekAndFind
And labor participation rate is ... ?
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:48:05 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: SeekAndFind
93.7 million Americans now do not have a job:
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm
Go into any store. In any city. Any state in America. Pick an aisle randomly, and pick up any item.
Anything.
The odds are, it was imported. Very likely from China.
Yet nobody, in either political party, is saying this is a wrong path for our country.
Donald Trump excepted. He seems to get this.
To: SeekAndFind
The actual unemployment rate is around 20%
To: GodAndCountryFirst
It also ignores the people who have dropped out of the labor market and are now living on handouts.
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:55:08 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(A free society canÂ’t let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous extremists.)
To: SeekAndFind
“Economists were nearly spot on in their predictions of a gain of 224,000 and that the unemployment rate would dip to 5.4%.”
Of course they were spot on. When you create your own reality, you can kinda predict it before hand.
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:55:18 AM PDT
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: SeekAndFind
This Krauthammer quote sums up the entire Obama reign:
"You call me skeptical, that's inadequate. I'm cynical. I'm so cynical that I make Diogenes look credulous. With this administration, I don't buy anything they're telling me. "
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posted on
05/08/2015 6:58:36 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: SeekAndFind
If the US has 175 to 200 million of the age eligible to be in the work force and per a report this morning on Drudge there are 93+ million out of work, if those figures are correct, the unemployment is at 46%. Per the obozo and his regime; You can keep your doctor!!
To: SeekAndFind
Someone should tell that to the 47 retailers closing a combined 6000 stores between them. Guess they didn't get the memo/spin that the economy is improving. I mean, bammy has decreed it, so it must be so, right? :-/
http://conservativetribune.com/major-retailers-closing/
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posted on
05/08/2015 7:00:01 AM PDT
by
ThunderSleeps
(Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
To: SeekAndFind
I remember when we used to laugh at the “news” and “information” coming out of the Soviet Union as pure propaganda.... I guess the joke is on us now.
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posted on
05/08/2015 7:01:08 AM PDT
by
zzeeman
("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
To: SeekAndFind
Earlier in the week an economist was saying that the Friday jobs numbers would include around 25-30,000 seasonal phantom jobs. These are jobs that the Labor Dept thinks were created for spring but jobs that they can’t actually confirm were created.
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posted on
05/08/2015 7:05:25 AM PDT
by
XRdsRev
(New Jersey - Crossroads of the American Revolution)
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
I want them to be forced to detail how many of these 223,000 new jobs went to an H1B, L1, or illegal.
All BS.
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posted on
05/08/2015 7:08:43 AM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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