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1 posted on 06/18/2014 1:26:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 06/18/2014 1:27:40 PM PDT by upchuck (... honesty is the never-ending rehearsal for those who want to be the friends of God...)
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This for the New York Times may signal a revolutionary move, actually reporting the news. I doubt it.


3 posted on 06/18/2014 1:28:56 PM PDT by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is from the NYT? Interesting. Seems to me economic news is designed so politicians can spin things any way they want. Green chutes, unemployment, tax revenues, inventory levels, core inflation and on and on.

We have the fewest people employed since I don’t know when, but IRS reporting record breaking receipts and state budgets are expanding.


4 posted on 06/18/2014 1:31:51 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone’s gonna get fired at the Times.


6 posted on 06/18/2014 1:53:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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8 posted on 06/18/2014 2:21:15 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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10 posted on 06/18/2014 2:31:55 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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It's true that the unemployment rate is a poor proxy for whether there are enough jobs to go around.

If only there was a government agency working full time to collect statistics on the labor market. One that would track trends in numbers of hires, number employed, number of people on salary vs hourly, and the average wage by industry over time. I bet that would let you paint a picture that people could recognize. If that data was on the Internet, journalists could study it. Build their own basket of middle class jobs, mid-level to skilled jobs, and track the trends in employment and wages for “regular people”, and see if they are doing better than x years ago? Unemployment rate could more accurately (but less precisely) be expressed with a 10 level code, while economists can dig into the BLS tables like they do anyway.

12 posted on 06/18/2014 4:24:43 PM PDT by NYFriend
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This chart is truncated at both the high and low ends, which even further distorts the presentation. The apparent amount of change is greatly magnified.
13 posted on 06/18/2014 4:53:50 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (Book: Resistance to Tyranny. Buy from Amazon.)
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