Posted on 02/05/2016 8:18:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
12-15% would be closer to the rate, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were over 20%.
I question the retail workers #’s. This is post Christmas and retailers are heading into choppy waters, lead by Walmart s announced closures.
B.S.! They are not counting all of those that have just given up - not looking for work, not collecting unemployment.
The next POTUS will have to deal with the REAL numbers.
Then it will be SHTF time.
I stopped to tie my shoe! Otherwise...
“Don’t worry, the term ‘McJobs’ and “part time†will be back in the media lexicon soon after a Republican is president.”
Big Media will suddenly start to care about labor force participation rate, healthcare costs, the National debt, and US military deaths.
In the meantime, Hussein Heads everywhere will be ecstatic that their god reduced unemployment so much more.
If this is an “encouraging” report, why is the market down 200+?
That number doesn’t even keep up with the number of new possible workers coming into the economy.
News about and statistics from the USA government are mimicking the USSR during the cold war days.
I'm here in Oklahoma where folks are already starting to hurt.
You betcha. Congress should simplify things by passing this law: The unemployment rate in the United States shall be 4.9%.
No need for all those economists, and all those studies. Just always report unemployment as 4.9%.
“US added just 151k jobs in January; unemployment at 4.9%”
...unemployment SAID TO BE at 4.9%
Journalists, instead of saying that “Obama said...”, should be saying that “Obama claims...”.
The new president’s transition team should get out in front of that rate jump by getting corrected numbers and releasing them BEFORE they take over the white house.
Shot the media with it before they shot you.
What an utter lie.
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