Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Keep clapping

Dammit, and do it louder (after all it is a low paying job)!

Some economists say jobless claims and other recent data show that employers likely added 200,000 to 300,000 jobs a month this year, rather than the 128,000 average reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The reason for the possible disparity: The government tends to underestimate both job gains in a recovery and job losses in a recession, the economists say. That helps explain why the nation's unemployment rate has fallen more sharply than the modest payroll increases suggest. The jobless rate was 8.9% last month, down from 9.8% in November.

"The data suggest there's been more improvement already in the employment numbers," says Jim O'Sullivan, chief economist of MF Global.


Ah, nothing more grating than a news story that starts out "Some (fill in blank) say..."

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Some ... say..." is journalist lingo for "I just made this shit up..."

Anonymous said...

Well, duuuuh.

Of course unemployment is down. The Republican plan is working!

pansypoo said...

what plan? i thought they were busy taking women's rights away.
and workers,
and children's.
and minorities.

Howlin Wolfe said...

The republican plan for jobs is very similar to their health care plan:

If you have a job, don't lose it. If you lose your job, die quickly!

Raoul Paste said...

It really is Herbert Hoover economics. Didn't work then; ain't working now.

pansypoo said...

history is so,...unamerikan.

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