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U.S. adds 192,000 jobs in February (8.9% unemployment)
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| March 4, 2011, 8:30 a.m. EST
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Posted on 03/04/2011 5:49:08 AM PST by TSgt
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You smell something burning? I think it's the cooked numbers...
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:49:10 AM PST
by
TSgt
To: TSgt
A new ‘magic number’: under 9%
Come whatever may, Team Obama will get to ‘perceived’ 8% or less unemployment by November 2012.
If they can keep ‘perceived’ inflation in check, Team Obama will be difficult to beat.
Incumbency is difficult to win against. The GOP needs a strong candidate, and their top tier of wannabes are not ‘them’.
Link to full BLS report:
http://bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:50:36 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: TSgt
They are well overdone. What a joke this is becoming.
To: TomGuy; SeekAndFind; blam; FromLori
How much of those are govt hire? What was the private sector hiring?
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:52:04 AM PST
by
Perdogg
(What Would Aqua Buddha do?)
To: TSgt
In before the “unexpected”
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:52:19 AM PST
by
spokeshave
(WTF....the only thing 0bambi's investments will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy.)
To: TSgt
All the talking heads projected a 9.1% rate. Cooked numbers in the 8.9%? My guess: YES!
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:52:41 AM PST
by
Road Warrior ‘04
(I miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
To: screaminsunshine
I believe that these numbers come from “careful” polling, not an actual count. I suggest a defunding of the Labor Dept.
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:54:53 AM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Bushbacker1
the 8.9% number is a joke.
I want to know when the unemployment rate will increase as all the discouraged workers come back into the equation.
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:55:05 AM PST
by
mwl8787
To: TSgt
From the BLS report:
The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for December was revised from +121,000 to +152,000, and the change for January was revised from +36,000 to +63,000.
Curious that the report gives no reason for the
upward revisions in both December and January.
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:55:05 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: TomGuy
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:56:29 AM PST
by
preamble
To: TSgt; All
The gap between Gallup Reported numbers, and Administration reported number is now HUGE.
Gallup reported 10.3% just YESTERDAY.
BLS is reporting 8.9%.
That’s not a statistical difference, that’s FRAUD by one of them.
How many millions did Obama have to delete from the workforce, this time???
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:56:36 AM PST
by
tcrlaf
(Democrats Outforced America's Jobs for 40 Years. Now The Bill Is Due)
To: TSgt
Why don’t they report it at 4.5% and be done with it?
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:57:05 AM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
(The great American prostate exam continues.)
To: Paladin2
And I second that. All of these job killing agencies should go.
To: TSgt
Wait a month. The numbers will be revised upwards. But by then the spin will have worked.
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:57:31 AM PST
by
paulycy
(Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
To: TSgt
Unemployment rate November 2010: 9.8%
Jobs added:
Dec 103,000
Jan 36,000
Feb 192,000
Total: 331,000 (110,000 per month)
Yet the unemployment rate has gone down a FULL point?
Yeah.... right.
Pre-Obama math, you needed 3 million jobs to drop it a full point.
Yet, presto. 300,000 jobs in 3 months and here we go. Down, down, down.
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:57:59 AM PST
by
nhwingut
(Palin '12... Accept No Other)
To: TSgt
Only socialist dictators will be allowed in the New World Order.
To: TSgt
Never forget, that when a person’s unemployment benefits expire they drop off the rolls. The BLS “assumes” that person to be employed................
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posted on
03/04/2011 5:59:32 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(How can anyone look at the situation in Libya and be for gun control is beyond stupid. It's suicide.)
To: TSgt
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:00:11 AM PST
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
To: tcrlaf
Underemployment surged to 19.9% in February from 18.9% at the end of January. Unemployment, as measured by Gallup without seasonal adjustment, hit 10.3% in February -- up from 9.8% at the end of January. The U.S. unemployment rate is now essentially the same as the 10.4% at the end of February 2010. ... Underemployment, a measure that combines part-time workers wanting full-time work with those who are unemployed, surged in February to 19.9%.
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posted on
03/04/2011 6:00:45 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: tcrlaf
Available jobs are decreasing faster than people filing. The recipe is folding in that figure. Mix well and bake.
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