Showing posts with label Population Survey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Population Survey. Show all posts
Saturday, September 2, 2023

The unemployment rate rose to 3.8%, but not because people lost jobs

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  The unemployment rate rose to 3.786% from 3.495% on a bigger 736k increase to the size of the labor force than to the employment level, no...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

CNN Business is stupid: "Women now hold more jobs than men"

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Here's the lede: Women held slightly more jobs than men in December — the first time that's happened in nearly a decade.  ...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Kellyanne Conway baldly lies on The Rush Limbaugh Show, claims over 7 million jobs created

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You don't lose control of the US House after creating over 7 million jobs in just over two years. These people are blind, but the v...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Sorry, Trump didn't create 2.4 million jobs "since his election", and even if he did, that sucks

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Not even the fact-checkers seem to want to get this right. Is the whole country taking stupid pills? Total nonfarm, not seasonally a...
Friday, April 7, 2017

ADP had private payrolls up 263,000 earlier this week, but we only get 98,000 from the BLS today

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When the expected BLS increase to total nonfarm was 180,000. What's up with that?! Long story short: Forget ADP, and employmen...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Fortune article perpetuates ignorance about part-time jobs, undercounting them by half

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One Laura Lorenzetti misinforms us here : "[T]he number of part-time jobs, while still elevated compared to pre-recessio...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Usually part-time vaults 465,000 in one month to new all-time high of 28.225 million

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Those who work usually part-time vaulted 465,000 month over month, not-seasonally-adjusted, in today's Household Survey data in the ...