[SirFishalot]

This metric could aslo point to another situation, employers are running out of people to lay off.

[KC_Conspirator]

That is right. Real unemployment is about 17%. There is nothing but skin and bone now at the companies, but they are not hiring becuase of Obama and the demoraps threatening them with fines, punishment, and new taxes.

[NonValueAdded]

This metric could aslo point to another situation, employers are running out of people to lay off.

Exactly

[nascarnation]

employers are running out of people to lay off.

I think that's a big part of it.

[George from New England]

“Running out of people to layoff”

Bingo.

1% of a declining number, month after month, becomes a smaller number naturally by the rules of math.

1,000,000 -1% 10,000
990,000 -1% 9,900
980,100 -1% 9,801
970,299
etc

[Jedidah]

Agree.

[Night Hides Not]

This metric could aslo point to another situation, employers are running out of people to lay off.

That's unexpectedly good news to those of us hunting for jobs.

[Gorzaloon]

This metric could aslo point to another situation, employers are running out of people to lay off.

Closed businesses do not do layoffs.

[My Favorite Headache]

Correct and other cases are people have run out of their benefits and haven’t found work period.

[ichabod1]

They still laid off over a half a million people. Is ANYONE getting hired back? Quibbling over 10000 here and there when hundreds of thousands are losing their jobs is ridiculous.

Obama is pissing off the retired and the unemployed. Can he win on that basis?

[keats5]

That was my thought, too.