Posted on 03/10/2017 5:34:46 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 235,000 in February and the unemployment rate was 4.7 percent in the first full month of President Donald Trump's term, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
Average hourly earnings increased by a healthy 2.8 percent.
Economists surveyed by Reuters had expected the economy to add 190,000 jobs and the unemployment rate to tick down to 4.7 percent. That contrasts with to the initially reported January numbers of 227,000 new positions and an unemployment rate of 4.8 percent.
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There is truth your comment. However the employment upswing pattern cannot be denied. It’s real.
Never was 4.8 unemployment . Just another manipulation by the Obama asministration. The lefties never question the lies and deception that flowed from the a$$ of of Obama.
My point is these are the same old percentage rate quoted by the Obama administration. They need to bring in an actuarial analyst and figure out with a higher degree of accuracy what the real unemployment rate is. Americans deserve to know.
Look at U6. It’s the only one that has ever mattered.
A real shame when leftists only cheer jobs numbers when a Democrat is in office..otherwise they frown..they just can’t be happy seeing America WINNING
Same. Not counted in this number — just U6.
Only if entitlements are cut to the bone.
NO welfare for the able bodied.
Even if it means scrubbing toilets in restaurants
Minimum wage should be abolished
Voter ID Laws
Means test voting—no skin in the game? no voting for you.
Bring back the death penalty in all 50 states
Law and Order, Law and Order, Law and Order!
The fat cat bureaucrats were in heaven as were the “poor” people with all their gov’t goodies.
business owners and C level executives aren’t terrified of the next legislation producing news conference regarding ACA where the president creates new law based on his whim.
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