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Grasswire2

(13,568 posts) Sat Dec 7, 2019, 04:13 PM Dec 2019

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Is the jobs number being touted a correct number?

I saw somewhere yesterday the info that the actual jobs number is somewhere around 60,000, not the 266,000 Trump is claiming.

Does anyone know where to research this?

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Is the jobs number being touted a correct number? (Original Post) Grasswire2 Dec 2019 OP

I can't point to a source right top off head... mwooldri Dec 2019 #1

Add to that the Wellstone ruled Dec 2019 #2

that makes sense and I will try to find facts Grasswire2 Dec 2019 #3

41,000 I heard on NPR yesterday rurallib Dec 2019 #5

Were those affected by the strike counted as unemployed the previous month? MichMan Dec 2019 #6

Hard to imagine any statistics that might be able to be NoMoreRepugs Dec 2019 #4

I imagine every level of the federal government is doing what they are told to do...or else. spanone Dec 2019 #7

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)

1. I can't point to a source right top off head...

Reply to Grasswire2 (Original post)

Sat Dec 7, 2019, 04:16 PM

Dec 2019

... but to my recollection (from listening to BBC World Service reports) this jobs number is inflated due to returning GM strikers plus all the ancillary people who were laid off during the strike.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

2. Add to that the

Reply to mwooldri (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 7, 2019, 04:23 PM

Dec 2019

USA returning strikers for the CN railway.

Grasswire2

(13,568 posts)

3. that makes sense and I will try to find facts

Reply to mwooldri (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 7, 2019, 04:24 PM

Dec 2019

The infuriating thing is that every media outlet accepts his brag as fact.

rurallib

(62,406 posts)

5. 41,000 I heard on NPR yesterday

Reply to mwooldri (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 7, 2019, 05:59 PM

Dec 2019

MichMan

(11,910 posts)

6. Were those affected by the strike counted as unemployed the previous month?

Reply to mwooldri (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 7, 2019, 07:33 PM

Dec 2019

NoMoreRepugs

(9,412 posts)

4. Hard to imagine any statistics that might be able to be

Reply to Grasswire2 (Original post)

Sat Dec 7, 2019, 04:34 PM

Dec 2019

influenced by a RUMPY minion have any chance of being accurate if they contradict any of his 10 lies a day.

spanone

(135,823 posts)

7. I imagine every level of the federal government is doing what they are told to do...or else.

Reply to Grasswire2 (Original post)

Sat Dec 7, 2019, 07:37 PM

Dec 2019

the head of this fish is rotten

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