You laugh, but as the weather clears, there *should* be some positive employment news in March. Because, logically, if employers were going to hire (let's say) 100K people in Feb, but couldn't because of the storms.....well, those jobs still need to be filled.
So, they'll be filled by March, I'd assume. That's how I always do business. Assuming that the positions existed in the first place.
And, of course, I'm sure that if this bump up doesn't materialize, then the MSM will dutifully report it, right? :-)
Problem is, wbill—the only reason we haven’t had HIGHER unemployment is because of the number of “discouraged” workers. Look at the U-6 number if you want a REAL indication of where we’re at, and IIRC, last month’s figure was just under 17 percent. That number won’t improve with the addition of a mere 100K jobs. Even temporary Census workers will return to the unemployment line, and the expiration of the Bush tax cuts are causing more businesses to hold off hiring. Yeah, 2010 might not be too terrible, but this is the calm before the storm of 2011-2012.