.S. Added 248,000 Jobs in September, Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.9%

FoxBiz.com ^ | 10/3/14 | Dunstan Prial

[mykroar]

In August the economy generated just 142,000 new jobs, well below expectations on weakness in major sectors including manufacturing, retail and transportation. That number was revised upward to 180,000 on Friday

That's a hell of a revision. And look - 5.9% just in time for the election!

[Cringing Negativism Network]

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

All we are doing is washing our unemployment out of our labor force participation rate.

All we are doing, is buying way too much stuff, imported from China.

[Rennes Templar]

It’s the red states with GOP governors that are doing it.

[kabar]

[bert]

no, it’s the number crunchers at the Labor department that are doing it.

[dead]

It's still brutal out there on the job market, no matter what imaginary numbers they come up with.

I would love for the job market to suddenly take off and get busy, but I know nobody out there who believes this is happening.

I'm not talking about number crunchers and spin doctors in the employ of government, I'm talking about people who are actually looking for a job.

[mykroar]

Meanwhile, gold’s dipping under $1200 and silver’s dancing around $17.

[grania]

Your charts show the appalling situation of people not in the labor force. Even that doesn’t tell the whole story. I believe the gov numbers (sort of), but they don’t tell us how many of those jobs are at or near full time.

[kabar]

Since 2008, the part-time jobs are almost two to one versus full-time.

[CMB_polarization]

Mmm ... I wonder what the underemployment rate is.

[griswold3]

Ah! I remember 2008 and the previous years. We were told that the economy was the worst since the Great Depression. And now we’re supposed to celebrate the same statistics?
The liberal mind is a wasteland.

[SoFloFreeper]

[Rennes Templar]

I was traveling in the western Midwest recently. In areas where I spoke to people they said things were doing very well.

[sport]

What mind? If a Liberal had a mind, they would not be a Liberal. Liberals are slaves and robots. They do, say, and act as instructed by their masters.

[logi_cal869]

That's a hell of a revision. And look - 5.9% just in time for the election!

Yeah, and care-of Fox News.

I heard this report on the radio c/o Fox News Radio, whose reports are typically glowing in support of propaganda for the masses.

I likened continued broadcasts of Fox Radio News Reports to facilitating self-gratification and suggested the picture might only be complete with a broadcast describing NFL cheerleaders' uniforms...

[The Great RJ]

Any economic numbers issued by this administration are at best distortions of the actual numbers or outright fabrications. No amount of rosy economic numbers can cover what millions of Americans already know...this economy is the worst since the great depression.

[Red Badger]

.....and Ebola isn’t an airborne transmission disease...........

[CPT Clay]

Unexpectedly

[Excellence]

They have reprised the old TV show "Welcome back Kotter" and named it "Welcome back Carter"

Stole it from a commenter at zero hedge.

[jsanders2001]

> Your charts show the appalling situation of people not in the labor force. Even that doesn’t tell the whole story. I believe the gov numbers (sort of), but they don’t tell us how many of those jobs are at or near full time.

I don’t believe the government numbers tell the people what matters most to them - how many people have jobs that they can actually support them living apart from their parents...: x)