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packman

(16,296 posts) Fri Jul 7, 2017, 09:33 AM Jul 2017

This is Draining the Swamp? How to inflate job reports 101

New government jobs beat new manufacturing jobs 35 to 1 in June, according to the employment data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Government jobs grew by 35,000 in month, while manufacturing jobs grew by only 1,000.

Also, in 2017 so far, the United States has created 1,000 more government jobs than manufacturing jobs, according to the BLS data.

From May to June, the seasonally adjusted total for employment in government rose from 22,318,000 to 22,353,000—an increase of 35,000.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/

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This is Draining the Swamp? How to inflate job reports 101 (Original Post) packman Jul 2017 OP

Republican myth: "The government doesn't create jobs." yallerdawg Jul 2017 #1

Talk about cherry-picking the data. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2017 #2

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

1. Republican myth: "The government doesn't create jobs."

Reply to packman (Original post)

Fri Jul 7, 2017, 09:37 AM

Jul 2017

But we'll damn sure count them!

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,439 posts)

2. Talk about cherry-picking the data.

Reply to packman (Original post)

Fri Jul 7, 2017, 09:44 AM

Jul 2017

This is why we don't get too worked up over month-to-month changes.

Anyway, go here:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm

Scroll down to the bottom. The growth was in local government.

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