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Job growth rebounds to 222,000 in June, unemployment at 4.4 percent
Washington Examiner ^ | Jul 7, 2017 | Joseph Lawler

Posted on 07/07/2017 5:46:15 AM PDT by GonzoII

U.S. job growth rebounded in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, as the economy created 222,000 new payroll jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a percentage point to 4.4 percent.

Economists in the private sector had projected around 170,000 new jobs for the month.

Friday's report provides reassurance that job growth remains strong even as unemployment, which is the lowest rate since 2001, falls to below where Federal Reserve officials think it can sustainably go.

Only around around 50,000 to 100,000 jobs are needed each month to match population growth and keep unemployment trending down, according to Fed analysis. Job growth has easily cleared that mark, averaging 194,000 over the past three months as the job tallies for May and April were both revised up by a combined 47,000.

And it appears that job growth is likely to continue. Layoffs have been increasingly rare, with claims for unemployment benefits running near the lowest levels in decades.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: jobs; unemployment
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1 posted on 07/07/2017 5:46:16 AM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII
math is hard...for me

The labor force grew by 361,000 in June, bringing up the participation rate to 62.8 percent

U.S. job growth rebounded in June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, as the economy created 222,000 new payroll jobs

Can some guru reconcile this for me ? Is there something other than payroll jobs ?
2 posted on 07/07/2017 5:59:22 AM PDT by stylin19a
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Related - CNS +220,000 Jobs in June; Record 153,168,000 Employed
3 posted on 07/07/2017 6:06:00 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: GonzoII

Labor participation rate up to 62.8% Up


4 posted on 07/07/2017 6:19:36 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: stylin19a
Is there something other than payroll jobs ?

Politicians get paid 'off the books' with cash in a brown paper bag and blowjobs.

5 posted on 07/07/2017 6:28:10 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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To: stylin19a

I believe a non-payroll employee is someone who works for an employer through an outside staffing agency.


6 posted on 07/07/2017 6:31:51 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
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To: GonzoII

This sounds good, but I’m still waiting for somebody to create a job for me.


7 posted on 07/07/2017 6:32:07 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: GonzoII

Probably could be even better.

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/335896-workers-wanted-skilled-labor-shortage-hinders-business


8 posted on 07/07/2017 6:35:29 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: USS Alaska

no golf ? puh


9 posted on 07/07/2017 6:39:18 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: Alberta's Child

thank you


10 posted on 07/07/2017 6:39:40 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: GonzoII

Looking behind the curtain, only 1000 jobs were in manufacturing. Majority of new jobs were in restaurants, retail, clerical. Prosperity and wealth creation requires gains in manufacturing, mining, agriculture and applied research.


11 posted on 07/07/2017 6:43:16 AM PDT by entropy12 (Russia did not elect Trump! Freepers did!)
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To: stylin19a

If the rest of the country is like the surrounding areas of Memphis, they are min. wage fast food jobs, some building, not much else. Lots of fast food places going up, outer counties are seeing houses, bought to down or up size, some new ones, more than they will sell, those who work for city of Memphis MUST LIVE THERE!


12 posted on 07/07/2017 6:44:46 AM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump! DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: entropy12; bert
wealth creation requires gains in manufacturing, mining, agriculture and applied research.

Free Traitors™ do not believe that.

13 posted on 07/07/2017 6:46:37 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: GonzoII

Winning!


14 posted on 07/07/2017 7:05:17 AM PDT by No Dems 2016
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-07/where-june-jobs-were-more-minimum-wage-surge-government-hiring
(Actually, this is a laudatory article- for Zerohedge LOL!)

No game change yet, but not bad.
Mining jobs still rising.


15 posted on 07/07/2017 7:11:53 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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I don’t believe that unemployment is that low. I think Trump is doing a good job, but these are the numbers they using when Obama was president. It’s probably around 8%.


16 posted on 07/07/2017 8:21:34 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: stylin19a
...Can some guru reconcile this for me ? Is there something other than payroll jobs ?

Sure. Think about a plumber, or even a handyman. They are not on anyone's payroll, but they are working.

BLS classifies them as "independent contractors". Not necessarily a building contractor, but someone who works on jobs for an employer, but is not part of his permanent payroll.

Frequently they are short-term jobs, but not always.

17 posted on 07/07/2017 8:33:06 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: central_va

The concept of Free Traitors exists only in the minds of isolationist Economic Troglodytes Who have no concept of business nor what actually takes place with business on a global scale.

A lemonade stand run by E Trogs from under a rock will never succeed.


18 posted on 07/07/2017 12:14:18 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: central_va

The concept of Free Traitors exists only in the minds of isolationist Economic Troglodytes Who have no concept of business nor what actually takes place with business on a global scale.

A lemonade stand run by E Trogs from under a rock will never succeed.


19 posted on 07/07/2017 12:15:37 PM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: CurlyDave

thanks.
The 145,000 difference is just to stunning to ignore.

367,000 added to workforce.
222,000 added payroll jobs


20 posted on 07/07/2017 5:06:48 PM PDT by stylin19a
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