[Starwind]

1st release of the new BLS report is at Quarterly Data on Business Employment Dynamics - Sep 2003 covering September 2002 to December 2002.

[Starwind]

Get'm while they're hot...

[Lazamataz]

I have utterly no idea what the ramifications of this are.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Are outsourced jobs included in these figures?

[AdamSelene235]

A new U.S. data series released on Tuesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics

I stopped reading there. I'd rather count office buildings for lease or note how much tobacco is left in thrown away cigarettes than listen to the pathological liars at the BLS.

[lelio]

In other words, 7.2 percent of all jobs in December 2002 did not exist three months earlier

What does that mean? That you've added a salesman to your staff? That you're a new company and are expanding into a new field and need an entirely new staff to support it? That you laid someone off 3 months ago and just re-hired them?

Or maybe that you've had to hire on a security guard to protect your stuff from former employees that you've just canned?

[LS]

I think I said something to this effect over the past year.

[Congressman Billybob]

These reports on job-changing should be laid down beside the quarterly reports on employment/unemployment. This is because the employment statistics are based on businesses known to exist and the time of the reports, whereas the changing jobs survey should locate people who are now employed in NEW businesses.

We should not ignore this additional factor of actual employment because no less than the Wall Street Journal and Barron's among others have noted that small businesses are more responsible for total employment growth than all of the top 500 businesses in the nation.

Especially at a time when the economy is just beginning to grow out of a recession, the job cutbacks in large corporations are well known and well documented; whereas, the job growth in small or new businesses is largely below the radar.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Democrats Dancing to Tunes of Glory?," discussion thread on FR. Article also on ChronWatch.

[waterstraat]

Jobs are not being lost, they are being transferred to asia, where communist slave labor is cheap. As long as a chinse commie is able to do the job cheaper than an american, the job will not come back. As long as "free traders" prefer to have chinese commies work for them instead of americans, the jobs will not come back. Job loss in america is a great victory for communist sympathizers and friends of communists, and a defeat for conservatives.