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Economy Creates 163,000 New Jobs but Rate Rises to 8.3%
CNBC ^ | Published: Friday, 3 Aug 2012 | 8:32 AM ET | Jeff Cox

Posted on 08/03/2012 5:36:33 AM PDT by Perdogg

The U.S. economy closed out an otherwise weak second quarter by creating more jobs than expected, with 163,000 new positions added, but the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent. June saw 80,000 new jobs.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: economy; jobless; july2012; obama; obamanomics; recovery; unemployment; unexpected
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1 posted on 08/03/2012 5:36:35 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

U6 increased again to 15%


2 posted on 08/03/2012 5:37:41 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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I wonder how many of those are seasonal..


3 posted on 08/03/2012 5:38:06 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Radical Islam is a bigger threat than the LDS...)
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To: KevinDavis

The BLS is probably fudging those numbers as well. I do not understand how teachers returning from summer can be counted as “found employment”.


4 posted on 08/03/2012 5:39:52 AM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: Perdogg; xzins

The economy does not create jobs. Hard working industrious people who risk their own capital in order to better their own lives create jobs.

To say that the economy created these jobs is the same as Obama telling people they didn’t build their own businesses, that other people did it for them.


5 posted on 08/03/2012 5:40:02 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds.)
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To: KevinDavis
I wonder how many of those are seasonal..

And part-time, temp, etc.

6 posted on 08/03/2012 5:40:14 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: KevinDavis; All

CNBC said more than 27,000 of the jobs were added to tge tourism sector (hotels, etc), so almost 20%...they also said a lot of this months number had to do with seasonal auto workers returning as well...

btw- Junes pathetic jobs numbers were revised downward 6000...


7 posted on 08/03/2012 5:40:38 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: KevinDavis

Seasonal adjustments for July are usually 1 million upwards.


8 posted on 08/03/2012 5:41:56 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo (Support hate crime laws: Because some victims are more equal than others.)
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To: KevinDavis

Good news politically. Getting the unemployment rate moving in the WRONG direction is better politically than a smaller number of jobs created.

This is good for Romney, bad for Obama.

And the new jobs number will be revised downward in coming weeks.


9 posted on 08/03/2012 5:42:07 AM PDT by mwl8787
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To: Perdogg

-——the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent.———

I thought it was 8.2% before. I must have missed the unheralded re adjustment to 8.4%


10 posted on 08/03/2012 5:42:07 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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Not good numbers. August, September & October will show lower numbers. Gas prices are rising rapidly. It takes a month or two to reflect the downward trend in the job numbers. Obama continues to destroy the USA economy which is just what he wants to do!!!


11 posted on 08/03/2012 5:42:28 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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. . . Rate Rises to 8.3% . . . the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent

Are there no editors or even proofreaders left in the mainstream media? Some of us would agree with the headline that when the unemployment rate goes from 8.2% to 8.3%, that should be referred to as rising and not falling. This journalistic error is unexpected, just like the bad economic news.

12 posted on 08/03/2012 5:42:51 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: bert

Ministry of Truth must have gotten to this one before it was published.


13 posted on 08/03/2012 5:43:34 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo (Support hate crime laws: Because some victims are more equal than others.)
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NB: the CNBC corrected the mistake in the first sentence from “fell” to “rose”
14 posted on 08/03/2012 5:43:56 AM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: Perdogg

Economy Creates 163,000 New Jobs but Rate Rises to 8.3%

but the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent.


Not to be picky, And I know you didn’t write this stuff. Which is it? Did it Rise or Fall?

I really detest poorly written material from these so-called Professionals.


15 posted on 08/03/2012 5:44:04 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: Perdogg

Unemployment rate rises....stock market reacts positiveley

unexpectedly


16 posted on 08/03/2012 5:44:48 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell)
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To: Pollster1; bert

NB: CNBC corrected the mistake in the first sentence from “fell” to “rose”


17 posted on 08/03/2012 5:45:23 AM PDT by Perdogg (Let's leave reading things in the Constitution that aren't there to liberals and Dems)
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To: Perdogg

June new Jobs was revised down from 80,000 to 64,000.


18 posted on 08/03/2012 5:46:07 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Perdogg

The 163,000 new jobs were all Obama campaign workers.


19 posted on 08/03/2012 5:46:37 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: Perdogg

The “unemployment rate fell to 8.3%”?

Wrong, propagandists, it rose to 8.3%.


20 posted on 08/03/2012 5:46:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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