Category: Unemployment
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Real Work Force – 05/31/15
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for May 2015 showing a slight uptick in the unemployment rate from 5.4% to 5.5% with 280,000 jobs created. At Forbes, a cautiously optimistic tone: Currently 8.7 million Americans are unemployed. At issue for months, however, has been the large percentage of people who are working part-time not by choice but because…
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Real Work Force – 11/30/14
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for November 2014 showing no change to the unemployment rate at 5.8% with a better than expected 320,000 jobs created. The Gray Lady’s cheerleaders continued their applause: Ever since the recovery from the Great Recession began more than five years ago, the most crucial missing pieces of the economic…
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Real Work Force – 06/30/14
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for June 2014 showing an decrease in the unemployment rate from 6.3% to 6.1% with a better than expected 228,000 jobs created. The Gray Lady’s cheerleaders applauded: The economy accelerated in June, with employers adding 288,000 jobs, well above the rate of hiring recorded in the first five months…
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Real Work Force – 02/28/14
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for February 2014 showing an increase in the unemployment rate from 6.6% to 6.7% with a better than expected 175,000 jobs created. The Gray Lady’s cheerleaders applauded: As Job Creation Increases in February, Economists See Signs of a Spring Thaw …The American economy appeared to emerge from a winter…
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Real Work Force – 01/31/14
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for January 2014 showing another drop in the unemployment rate from 6.7% to 6.6% with below expectations 113,000 jobs created. The “Drum”beat leftists at Mother Jones believe austerity was madness: This is the price of austerity. If public sector employment had been growing normally during this period, we’d have…
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Real Work Force – 12/31/13
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for December 2013 showing a massive 0.3% drop in the unemployment rate to 6.7% with measly 74,000 jobs created. The Liberal Cheerleaders at ThinkProgress could only muster a matter-of-fact tone: Retail added 55,000 jobs in December and food service and drinking places added 9,000 jobs, while professional and business…
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Real Work Force – 11/30/13
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for November 2013 showing a 0.2% drop in the unemployment rate. Politico trumpeted that the Unemployment Rate had hit a 5-year low! MJ Lee noted, “The economy added 203,000 jobs in November while the unemployment rate dropped to 7 percent, the Labor Department reported on Friday. The last time…
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Real Work Force – 10/31/13
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for October 2013 showing a 0.1% bump in the unemployment rate. I’m sure you can imagine that Breitbart and the NYT spun the news a bit differently: Mike Flynn noted, “Over the last year, the economy has averaged 190k new jobs each month. This level is below the amount…
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Real Work Force – 09/30/13
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for September 2013 showing another 0.1% drop in the unemployment rate. Our friends at CNN spun it as positively as possible saying, “But the good news is the unemployment rate fell to 7.2% as 73,000 people joined the labor force and 133,000 people said they got jobs. That’s considered…
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Real Work Force – 07/31/13
The FedGov released its unemployment propaganda for July 2013 this week showing a 0.1% drop in the unemployment rate. Our friends at ZeroHedge said, “So much for the trends of beats: July non-farm payrolls +162K missing expectations of 185K; June was revised lower to 188K and the unemployment rate dips from 7.5% to 7.4%. The…
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