Posted on 01/10/2014 5:34:00 PM PST by lbryce
U.S. employers hired the fewest workers in nearly three years in December, but the setback was likely to be temporary amid signs that unusually cold weather may have had an impact.
The surprisingly weak job growth figures reported by the Labor Department on Friday, however, could cause some discomfort at the Federal Reserve, which last month announced plans to scale back its massive monetary stimulus program.
Nonfarm payrolls rose only 74,000 in December, the smallest increase since January 2011 and well short of the 200,000 jobs or so that most economists had expected.
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Didn’t the real cold weather come AFTER Christmas?
Oh no. Global warming has broken the economy. It isn’t Obama, Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi’s fault.
Ha ha ha
Now it’s global cooling spoiling the Wondrous Plans of The One?
Somewhere a village is missing its Goron
I am not a Goron, just to make that clear
All the snow plows are being operated by illegal aliens.
Another job Americans won’t do (because they are being done by illegal aliens).
Obviously all this was due to the unexpected cold weather in December and early January.
It was in the mid-20’s in Houston last weekend and should be up to 70 by tomorrow. The mid-20’s was truly unexpected but global warming has returned and saved us all! /s/
When it’s cold outside, people don’t feel like hiring. I think.
“Today’s weather was exceedingly ordinary - which portends the end of the world as we know it”
Yep, that cold weather killed all the jobs alright.
Like the jobs were there to begin with?
How these people look at themselves in the mirror is beyond me.
Lets blame the weather, instead of the real reason - Obamacare.
Unexpected...
and caused by “cold weather”?
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