[RaceBannon]

A spokeswoman says the Department of Labor issued 156,673 benefit checks during the week of Dec. 13-19, up nearly 50 percent from 105,431 last year. . . The system overload comes just a couple days after the state announces that the unemployment rate dropped from 8.8 percent in October to 8.2 percent.

Anyone else find a dichotomy in that statement??

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Maybe an inconsistency.

I think the problem could be seasonal adjustments. Seasonal adjustments are based on historical patterns, weighted more heavily towards the recent past. The surge in unemployment last year at this time is used to “seasonally adjust” this month’s figures.

[PGalt]

Not a problem Race. Associated Propagandists can write whatever they want AND they can never be challenged collectively. An individual with name affixed to a story is insulated from questions as propaganda is one-way communication. We the people are not given the opportunity to directly question the deceiver.

[Marine_Uncle]

Perhaps the NBC goon has been reading to many IPCC reports on global warming issues and just figures, they can write anything regardless of how contradictory sentences appear.
Don't over tax their simple minds.