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And those new business likely will have mulitple employees of SOME amount (even it's only 2 each - that MORE than enough new jobs to make up the the increase in population) - and of course that's entirely separate from any existing companies that may increase their hiring.
Ken
What is the proof of these new businesses even existing?
I expected more out of you. By your logic, can you explain why the unemployment rate dropped to 9% before the Republicans did anything?
(and what have they done exactly? Brought styrofoam back to the Capitol and passed a bunch of show-boat bills that they knew had no prayer of getting beyond the House. Strong leadership...)
and now the Repugs are wasting time and $$ to defend the DOMA law. I thought that they ran onthe promise of getting America back to work.
Don't forget the 136,000 new workers needing jobs...that should be deducted from the jobs created.
NOBODY is forgetting that.
Job creation at the moment is still not enough to get us healthy very fast - but it's a HELL of a lot better than we had when Obama came into office (which 700,000+ job loses just that month). So we've gone from shedding 700,000+ jobs to creating nearly 200,000. That's a change of nearly 1,000,000 to the better. I'll certainly take it. Would I like to see more?
Of course I would - and we will, since the trend is for INCREASING job creation.
Take a poll,ask a handful of pertinent questions like:
Are you employed?
If not do you want to find work?
How many hours do you work?
Publish the material.
Instead the BLS mixes in various secret ingredients to pop out the magical figures it does.
So, the BLS "unadjusted" figures are improving TOO.
Choose your numbers - both are showing an overall trend of improvement.
There's good reasons the BLS adjusts the numbers. There are ALWAYS seasonal variations in the job numbers - ALWAYS, but those seasonal variations are not that important when you are trying to analyize trends over longer periods of time.
So, the BLS "unadjusted" figures are improving TOO.
Choose your numbers - both are showing an overall trend of improvement.
There's good reasons the BLS adjusts the numbers. There are ALWAYS seasonal variations in the job numbers - ALWAYS, but those seasonal variations are not that important when you are trying to analyize trends over longer periods of time.
Ken
Who is saying otherwise?
What some of us are saying is that the figures used by the BLS are a little...fudged.
Just post the actual data and let people work it out on their own.
NOBODY is forgetting that.
Job creation at the moment is still not enough to get us healthy very fast - but it's a HELL of a lot better than we had when Obama came into office (which 700,000+ job loses just that month). So we've gone from shedding 700,000+ jobs to creating nearly 200,000. That's a change of nearly 1,000,000 to the better. I'll certainly take it. Would I like to see more?
Of course I would - and we will, since the trend is for INCREASING job creation.
Ken
No-one is saying it is getting worse....it is however NOT getting better to the point some here seem to think.
Using the 137,000/month figure means 1,644,000 jobs a year need to be created to just to keep up....
Nevermind about the millions more to get the numbers down.
Well there are the government economists whose job it is to make political policy, and deficit spending look like it is working, so the shills in office can be re-elected.
Then there are economists who although they are employed by Universities, are supported by grants from mega corporations, that have a vested interest in being able to show statistically, that their raping, pillaging, and outsourcing of the economy is not doing any harm.
Then there are the economists who are hired by the banking industry to tell us there is no inflation, (regardless of what you experience) that the economy is improving, and that the FED is doing a good job.
Then there is a small minority of economists who actually tell you the truth, at least to some degree. They are labeled as doomers, and tin foil hats.
This way people can listen to any version of the "truth" they choose to believe.
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