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    lol your next post about it being a fluke.
    lol rooting for failure
    lol you fail
    You are the one with the major fail asshole.

    Saying the job number appears to be a statistical fluke isn't rooting for the economy to fail dip .

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    You are the one with the major fail asshole.

    Saying the job number appears to be a statistical fluke isn't rooting for the economy to fail dip .

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    189,000 jobs are added in August and the unemployment is 8.1%

    Only 166,000 jobs added in September and the unemployment drops to 7.8%?

    I believe you are better at math than this.

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    I believe you are better at math than this.
    Assumptions are dangerous.

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    I just couldn't be happier that Romney made "Obama's" critical 8% unemployment rate such a central part of his campaign message.

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    I just couldn't be happier that Romney made "Obama's" critical 8% unemployment rate such a central part of his campaign message.

    Exactly. Those drones are headed right for Romney's campaign.

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    189,000 jobs are added in August and the unemployment is 8.1%

    Only 166,000 jobs added in September and the unemployment drops to 7.8%?

    Labor force grows. The labor force grew by 418,000 people, so the drop in the unemployment rate was not due to people giving up on looking for work.

    http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...r-jobs-report/


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    OK smart guy. Tell me how the labor force grew by 418,000 when only 114,000 new jobs (by the same report) were created.

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    LOL another thinkprogress clown

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    OK smart guy. Tell me how the labor force grew by 418,000 when only 114,000 new jobs (by the same report) were created.
    are you really THAT stupid?

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    OK smart guy. Tell me how the labor force grew by 418,000 when only 114,000 new jobs (by the same report) were created.
    Maybe 304,000 people started looking for work? *shrug*

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    Valid Question CC:
    I haven't read the report yet, but on NPR this morning, they were saying that it seemed that the differences came from revisions of the past two reports. The good thing being that employment figures were better than reported, the bad thing being that most of those revisions came from new government jobs (mostly state government).

    I am just providing info, like I said, I haven't read the report yet.

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    Maybe 304,000 people started looking for work? *shrug*
    I shouldn't be surprised that CC doesn't understand what "labor force" means.

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    yep, labor force = job holders and (unemployed) job seekers

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    the jobless rate will stay high as the economy picks up and out-of-labor-force people re-enter the labor forced as unemployed job seekers.

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    There's an easy conflation, in the minds of the voters, of Labor Force and Employed.

    That confusion is easily exploited, tbh.

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    Maybe 304,000 people started looking for work? *shrug*
    So seriously...if 114,000 people got new jobs and 304,000 new people started looking for jobs...how does unemployment go down?

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    So seriously...if 114,000 people got new jobs and 304,000 new people started looking for jobs...how does unemployment go down?
    Probably a net figure that controls for population growth, i.e.

    gains-(net losses+population growth)= new jobs number

    (edit)

    one has to keep in mind that jobs are lost all the time, even in healthy economies, this is right and what free markets do, what matters is the NET number.

    I think we quit firing teachers to fill budget gaps, just a hunch.

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    Per here:

    The fact is that there’s not much that needs to be explained here. We’ve seen drops like this — and even drops bigger than this — before. Between July and August the unemployment rate dropped from 8.3 percent to 8.1 percent — two-tenths of one percent. November-December of 2011 also saw a .2 percent drop. November-December of 2010 saw a .4 percent drop. This isn’t some incredible aberration. The fact that the unemployment rate broke under the psychologically important 8 percent line is making this number feel bigger to people than it really is.

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    OK smart guy. Tell me how the labor force grew by 418,000 when only 114,000 new jobs (by the same report) were created.
    Are newly created jobs the only jobs that can be filled?

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    Doesn't sound like a .3% drop would require cooking any books...

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    Are newly created jobs the only jobs that can be filled?
    well, then there is this.

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