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Just as an FYI, the jobs numbers cited by the OP do not come from the same data as the labor force and unemployment data. Jobs numbers are from the Current Establishment Survey which each month reviews the payroll records of about 143,000 non-farm businesses covering some 588,000 worksites. These correspond to about one-third of all non-farm employees. Each month, the data for the prior two months are revised on two accounts -- first, the receipt of payroll information that a respondent was unable to provide on a timely basis, and second, the application of new seasonal adjustment factors calculated using the current month's data. These are the sources of in-year changes. There aren't any others.
Theres a lot of data showing that our job growth is primarily in the lower paid jobs. Poster probably stated it as the data is out there, and fairly well known by those interested in economics.
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Good and even not so good jobs are still hard to find
What data supports this? Job growth primarily being in any area doesn't support it since poster said all. Even if data did show certain job types growing faster you still can't prove something is "hard to find" or "good" since those are subjective terms.
There are always people who have a hard time finding jobs, and others who find it relatively easy. A blanket statement one way or the other is pointless.
Shouldn't these numbers correlate with the states numbers? Everyone blames the federal government, but nobody really says anything about the states. I live in NC, currently run by Republicans. Every month, they take all the credits they can get from the improving job numbers. I don't see trolls going there and telling us how these numbers don't match. Or maybe, the lies only come from those states run by Democrats?
In response to how many folks at a company we were at were lowballing IT candidates, a coworker said to me that the IT unemployment is only 1%, and that they were most certainly being unrealistic.
So they expect a job to come find them? You can be considered "marginally attached" to the workforce by looking for work as rarely as once a year. Asking your cousin whether there is anything open down at the filling station would count as looking for work Do you think that's too high a bar to set for people who claim that they want to work? If you can't or won't lift a finger on your own behalf, you are NOT looking for a job, and you can't describe yourself as unemployed. Jobless of course, but not unemployed. Not if your behavior can't be distinguished from that of jobless people such as full-time students and stay-at-home moms who plainly do not want a job at the present time.
Five million people started a new job in April. There were 5.4 million advertised job openings as of the end of that month, the most since that series began 15 years ago. What sort of effort are your "gave up" people putting forward in hopes of becoming employed? None at all would seem to be the answer.
If anyone really thinks the unemployment rate is that low then you are a dupe. Good and even not so good jobs are still hard to find.
Five years into an economic "recovery" and we an ever lower number of people in the population looking for work? Some recovery. Also, the number of jobs for April and May was revised downward which seems to be a common occurrence with the government stats.
Ha. I was gonna respond as such when I read only the title.
The "jobs" "created" are mostly part time, seasonal or temporary among the lower income jobs. The upper income jobs MAY fall into the same category, at least here.
It also doesn't count those who gave up, started their own business{which may be failing}, or actually retired-for now-until the economy improves, or retired permanently.
No, we are NOT recovering very well in the j-o-b-s department.
BUT IT LoOKS GOOD ON PAPER< and the Goverment will take credit for it!
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