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Hilarious job numbers from the Bureau of Labor
American Thinker ^ | 6 Oct, 2024 | Jack Hellner

Posted on 10/06/2024 5:50:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber

As the media campaign so vigorously for Democrats and cheer how great the Biden-Harris policies have been, suddenly, the Department of Labor comes out with an unemployment report that blows away expectations.

Biden and Harris were out bragging as a significant number of people still can’t pay their bills without running up new debt or going delinquent on the debt they already had.

Supposedly, 254,000 jobs were created in September. Isn’t that amazing, that this report came out one month before the election?

Of course, the media gave the headline number and never got into the details.

Here is one important detail: government jobs showed a gain of 785,000 because of the second biggest seasonal adjustment on record. (It is easy to manipulate numbers when you have “seasonal adjustments.”) This would mean that private-sector employment declined 531,000 with seasonal adjustments. I would say that is not too much to brag about. Somehow, the voters don’t get to see that number, but they know that the economy has sucked the past four years because they can’t pay their bills.

In September, the number of government workers as tracked by the Household Survey soared by 785K, from 21.421 million to 22.216 million, both seasonally adjusted (source: Table A8 from the jobs report). This was the biggest monthly surge in government workers on record (excluding the outlier print in June 2020 which was a reversal of the record plunge from the Covid collapse months before).

And, from the Department of Labor itself: Private-sector employment, not seasonally adjusted, went down 458,000. What would the voters think if they saw the factual number instead of the seasonally adjusted number?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: adjustment; employment; labor; seasonal; seasonaladjustment; seasonaladjustments
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1 posted on 10/06/2024 5:50:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Not a peep in the MSM that without the “Seasonal Adjustment” the jobs number was down. Thai is inconvenient information.


2 posted on 10/06/2024 5:50:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

this administration is pulling numbers out of places that require one wear elbow gloves and use gallons of sanitizer.


3 posted on 10/06/2024 5:54:10 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: MtnClimber

September is the month when teachers go back to school. Some of them have jobs during the summer, but many do not.


4 posted on 10/06/2024 5:57:13 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: MtnClimber

BLS is the Joe Isuzu of government


5 posted on 10/06/2024 5:58:30 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: MtnClimber
...remember: recently, the Department of Labor said it overestimated jobs by 881,000 in a year.

...one important detail: government jobs showed a gain of 785,000 because of the second biggest seasonal adjustment on record.

Anyone want to bet that these employment numbers are revised downward AFTER the election? Democrats: since you're losing, try something different...like telling the truth? Why are you hiding the mail-in vote count in MI?

6 posted on 10/06/2024 5:58:40 AM PDT by econjack
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To: MtnClimber

That’s what I was thinking. As soon as it’s politically convenient for them, these numbers will be adjusted downward, as they always are.


7 posted on 10/06/2024 5:59:22 AM PDT by Joann37
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To: Joann37

“As soon as it’s politically convenient for them, these numbers will be adjusted downward, as they always are.”

Even the adjusted numbers are fake like every other government statistic.


8 posted on 10/06/2024 6:01:42 AM PDT by KamperKen (u)
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To: Joann37

Baghdad Bib now running the Bureau of Labor!


9 posted on 10/06/2024 6:04:23 AM PDT by parmamenian (and so it goes!)
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To: MtnClimber

I think this used to be called “fuzzy math“.


10 posted on 10/06/2024 6:06:28 AM PDT by Hattie
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To: MtnClimber

Numbers released by THIS government are nothing by political BS used to get commie RATS elected.


11 posted on 10/06/2024 6:08:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The New "American Dream"! U.S. taxpayer financed - "ASYLUM" for foreign fugitives.)
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To: MtnClimber

How many jobs were created by Helene?


12 posted on 10/06/2024 6:42:43 AM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Hattie

It’s based on Venn Diagrams. No lie, man. No lie. etc.


13 posted on 10/06/2024 6:44:49 AM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: MtnClimber

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Per the above, what’s soooo not funny...

“Employment in government continued its upward trend in September (+31,000). Government had an
average monthly gain of 45,000 jobs over the prior 12 months. Over the month, employment
continued to trend up in local government (+16,000) and state government (+13,000).”

It’s good to be Deep State.


14 posted on 10/06/2024 6:46:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: MtnClimber

IWO, it takes a quarter million to process all those illegals and print their nice big hefty checks.


15 posted on 10/06/2024 8:19:53 AM PDT by bgill
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” Supposedly, 254,000 jobs were created in September. Isn’t that amazing, that this report came out one month before the election?”

And probably next month they will downgrade that statistic by 200,000


16 posted on 10/06/2024 9:35:14 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Hattie

It’s called “juicing the numbers going into the election, to make the progs look good”.


17 posted on 10/06/2024 9:51:02 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting here you're aiming!))
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To: Qwapisking

No honest person of even average intelligence actually believes these numbers.


18 posted on 10/06/2024 11:35:31 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)
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To: MtnClimber

MSM

MOST STUPID MEDIA ( MSM)

DONT BELIEVE RHE MSM ON ANYTHING


19 posted on 10/06/2024 12:00:45 PM PDT by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-in)
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Remember the old days when they said that it was necessary to add 300,000 new jobs every month just to break even?


20 posted on 10/06/2024 12:23:24 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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