243k jobs added, unemployment dips to 8.3%

[FuzzyLumpkins]

All I see YOU do is act like an asshole. Grow the up. Get a ing original thought for a change.

Unions, en lements and whatever the rhetoric that AM radio has going on is what comes out of your posts the majority of the time. I call you on it repeatedly and that has nothing to do with maturity but rather consistency.

That you resort to expletives and maturity smack calls to your behavior much more than mine. Citing age as something to be sought after is laughable anyway as the WW2 generation dies off the older crowd that remains lets just say leaves much to be desired.

[Jacob1983]

Again, why is it that Ron Paul is the only candidate that compares Obama to Bush?

[CosmicCowboy]

Unions, en lements and whatever the rhetoric that AM radio has going on is what comes out of your posts the majority of the time. I call you on it repeatedly and that has nothing to do with maturity but rather consistency.

That you resort to expletives and maturity smack calls to your behavior much more than mine. Citing age as something to be sought after is laughable anyway as the WW2 generation dies off the older crowd that remains lets just say leaves much to be desired.

Calling me out?....

You are just a pissant little ankle biter. Your whiney little posts blaming all your problems on people older than you are simply pathetic and indicative of what a worthless piece of you are. At least Boutons is consistently aggressively delusional. You are just consistently whiney. WaWaWa....

[JohnnyMarzetti]

Obama's approval rating going up too.

[boutons_deux]

Employment trending up is the Fox Repug network's worst nightmare, so they absolutley have to lie, saying the improvements are govt lies.

Fox And Friends Pretty Sure The Labor Department Is ‘Cooking The Books’ On Jobs Numbers

Fox News appeared to be systematically ignoring the strong jobs report that day, perhaps in an effort to avoid giving President Obama any credit. The network mentioned the jobs numbers half as often as some of their compe ors, and buried the big news on their website, but on Fox and Friends today, the network went a step further.

Hosts Eric Bolling, Steve Doocy, and Gretchen Carlson went beyond merely downplaying the numbers to contriving a conspiracy theory to explain them away:

BOLLING: So are they playing around with the numbers? Look, it’s the Bureau of Labor Statistics, it’s supposed to be non-partisan, but that’s the Department of Labor. Hilda Solis heads the Department of Labor, Hilda Solis works directly to Obama. I’m — you know.

DOOCY: Are you saying they’re cooking the books?

BOLLING: I’m saying there’s room for error. There’s room — when you’re talking about 4 million people, how do you know?

DOOCY: How do you know?

CARLSON: I don’t think anyone should surprised that in an election year — [...] So it’s interpretation, I think is the way in which we’d describe it.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...-jobs-numbers/

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Lying Repug governors, killing local and state govt jobs by the 100Ks and pushing austerity budget cuts to worsen the economy, are claiming that they are responsible for improved job numbers.

Repugs overwhelmingly trust Fox Repug Propaganda network to be telling the Pravda.

[boutons_deux]

Things Are Not OK

As the Economic Policy Ins ute points out, we started 2012 with fewer workers employed than in January 2001 — zero growth after 11 years, even as the population, and therefore the number of jobs we needed, grew steadily. The ins ute estimates that even at January’s pace of job creation it would take us until 2019 to return to full employment.

And we should never forget that the persistence of high unemployment inflicts enormous, continuing damage on our economy and our society, even if the unemployment rate is gradually declining. Bear in mind, in particular, the fact that long-term unemployment — the percentage of workers who have been out of work for six months or more — remains at levels not seen since the Great Depression. And each month that this goes on means more Americans permanently alienated from the work force, more families exhausting their savings, and, not least, more of our fellow citizens losing hope.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/op...=1&ref=opinion

[Winehole23]

But even as news stories note a bit of a dark cloud to that silver lining in the form of fewer-than-expected new jobs -- even leading their coverage with that datum -- there's still more reason to take that dipping unemployment rate with a grain of salt. That's because, even as jobless numbers have dipped, so have the ranks of people who actually have jobs.

In February 2012, or so says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the labor participation rate was 63.9 percent. In March, it dropped to 63.8 percent. That's down from 64.2 percent in March of 2011. And, if you're not participating, you don't get counted -- whether or not you have a job. So, despite an unemployment rate nominally moving in an encouraging direction, 31,000 fewer people were drawing paychecks last month than the month before.


In fact, the labor participation rate has been consistently spiraling down for several years now, and there really isn't a soft landing for numbers of this sort.
Cruddy labor numbers aren't an Obama-specific problem -- the participation rate has been dropping for over a decade, ever since the halcyon days of the dot-com bubble.


But then, we already knew that the lousy economy was a success of bipartisan cooperation. It takes a lot of cross-aisle hand-shaking to drive the national debt from simply disturbing levels to Greek-style over-achievement in the course of a decade. Why wouldn't that sort of talent work equal magic with the labor market?

http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/06/un...t-fewer-people

[boutons_deux]

They job creation numbers never say anything about quality of the jobs. A fast food drone job is counted the same as petroleum engineer job.

The VRWC 30+ year War on Employees, with mgmt and investors grabbing the employee wages not paid, has succeeded and continues:

Low-Wage Jobs to Blame for Slow Economic Recovery

Now a new study attributes the jobless recoveries following recent recessions to such job polarization. The study's authors argue that jobs in the middle of the skill and income distribution disappear during recessions and fail to come back during recoveries. How real is job polarization?
The job polarization thesis is widely attributed to work by David Autor and his colleagues. But as Autor makes very clear, it is only the decade of the 1990s that can be characterized by a hollowing out of middle-skill jobs. In that decade, according to Autor, employment growth was most rapid in high-skill jobs, was modestly positive in low-skill jobs, and was modestly negative in middle-skill jobs. From 1999 to 2007, in contrast, Autor finds that employment growth was concentrated in the bottom third of the skill distribution, a pattern that has persisted through the recovery from the 2007-2009 recessionand that is expected to persist to 2020.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds...=Google+Reader