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U.S. Job Growth Falters As Cold Weather Grips Nation
Reuters Via Yahoo Finance ^ | January 10, 2014 | Lucia Mutikani

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apologists; medialackeys
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To: lbryce

Didn’t the real cold weather come AFTER Christmas?


21 posted on 01/10/2014 6:06:14 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: lbryce

Oh no. Global warming has broken the economy. It isn’t Obama, Harry Reid, or Nancy Pelosi’s fault.


22 posted on 01/10/2014 6:07:20 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: lbryce

Ha ha ha

Now it’s global cooling spoiling the Wondrous Plans of The One?

Somewhere a village is missing its Goron


23 posted on 01/10/2014 6:11:21 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator

I am not a Goron, just to make that clear


24 posted on 01/10/2014 6:11:51 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: lbryce

All the snow plows are being operated by illegal aliens.

Another job Americans won’t do (because they are being done by illegal aliens).


25 posted on 01/10/2014 6:34:33 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: cripplecreek

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/


26 posted on 01/10/2014 6:52:49 PM PST by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: lbryce

When it’s cold outside, people don’t feel like hiring. I think.


27 posted on 01/10/2014 6:54:48 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: GeronL
The Uber-Goron, surpassed only by CBS anchor babes who think the world is coming to a frosty end:


28 posted on 01/10/2014 7:03:50 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator

“Today’s weather was exceedingly ordinary - which portends the end of the world as we know it”


29 posted on 01/10/2014 7:05:48 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: lbryce

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.


30 posted on 01/10/2014 7:26:09 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: cripplecreek

Lets blame the weather, instead of the real reason - Obamacare.


31 posted on 01/10/2014 8:50:59 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (2014theyearofdeadRINOs)
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To: cripplecreek

Unexpected...

and caused by “cold weather”?


32 posted on 01/10/2014 9:15:48 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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