[Cringing Negativism Network]

BUNK.

The number of potential employees, dropped by the same amount. Four tenths of one percent.

This number is complete bunk.

[GOPJ]

What percentage of people in Detroit are ‘disabled’... how many ‘unemployed’ aren’t being counted? I’m with you - this is New York Times at their best covering for Democrats.

[Lazamataz]

LOL

The New York Times has descended to complete and utter fabrication.

Hey, NYT, you communist Propaganda liars, just post this on your front page from now on!

[fwdude]

BUNK.

...

This number is complete bunk.

It's the very definition of bunk. "Bunk" should be the Democrats' slogan.

[SeekAndFind]

Here's a few more numbers for the good of the order:

- The total number of people not part of the workforce but who want a job (this includes both those who last looked between 5 and 52 weeks prior to mid-April and counted as marginally-attached to the workforce, and those who last looked before mid-April 2013 and not counted as marginally-attached to the workforce) – 6,146,000 (seasonally-adjusted), unchanged from March.

- The average private-sector workweek (seasonally-adjusted) – 34.5 hours, unchanged from March.

- The average manufacturing sector workweek (seasonally-adjusted) – 40.8 hours, down 0.2 hours from March. Sort of blows the good news that more people are working at least 35 hours per week out of the water.

- Via Tom Blumer (emphasis and extraneous comma in the original): While, the white teen unemployment rate dropped from 18.3% to 15.9%, the African-American teen rate went up from 36.1% to 36.8%.

Also, Tom noticed that the upward revisions in the February and March jobs numbers came more from changes in seasonal adjustments than from changes in the underlying non-adjusted numbers.

[HamiltonJay]

288k jobs does not cause employment nubers to go up, just to maintain an even number about 350k must gain employement weekly, the only reason the unemployment number is going down is because the folks that have been looking for work for so long have fallen out of the numbers.

Again, to just keep unemployment stable, you must hire about 300-350k a week, anything less than that and you are losing ground.