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26. And the "94 million jobless Americans" that Trump talked about in his campaign

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #25)

Fri Aug 3, 2018, 12:46 PM

Aug 2018

but haven't heard a word about since ...

Not in Labor Force (NILF): http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS15000000

By month, in thousands:

2016: 94010 93766 93515 94049 94662 94421 94413 94340 94357 94621 94996 95006
2017: 94364 94248 94179 94407 95038 94743 94684 94759 94480 95395 95416 95512
2018: 95665 95012 95335 95745 95915 95502 95598

Interestingly, it's now "95 million jobless Americans", not 94 million like during the campaign.

Not in Labor Force, Wants Job: http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS15026639

5,163,000 in July 2018, 5.4% of the NILF

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Payroll employment increases by 157,000 in July; unemployment rate edges down to 3.9% [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 OP

Right on time. BumRushDaShow Aug 2018 #1

Thanks. Good morning. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 #2

Odd irony: employment strong in part cuz of increased jobs in "social assistance." Snellius Aug 2018 #3

Standby for the Orange Clown tweet! djacq Aug 2018 #4

Links to earlier reports mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 #5

thank you heaven05 Aug 2018 #13

Fewer new hires and lower unemployment rate? yallerdawg Aug 2018 #6

Different surveys (why the unemployment rate fell 0.1% when payroll jobs increased by only +157,000) progree Aug 2018 #15

I'm gonna stick with the BLS report (same every month, same surveys every month). yallerdawg Aug 2018 #17

Yes - same survey as the decline in the number of reentrants is the 389,000 increase in the employed progree Aug 2018 #18

Additional links: mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 #7

157,000 jobs kind of sucks NewJeffCT Aug 2018 #8

3,140 'jobs' per state does kind of suck doesn't it. Sunlei Aug 2018 #11

157,000 jobs is ALL with this BOOMING economy?? Bengus81 Aug 2018 #9

curious if 20 cent an hour prison workers & million yr CEO are included in average hourly. Sunlei Aug 2018 #10

The Labor Force Participation Rate is actually lower now than Obama's last full month in office DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #12

LFPR: Dec 2016: 62.7%, Jan 2017: 62.9%, July 2018: 62.9% progree Aug 2018 #16

I think we are describing it differently DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #19

The LFPR is higher in July (62.9%) than in Obama's last full month of office, Dec 2016 (62.7%) progree Aug 2018 #20

I looked at it too fast. 62.7 62.9. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #21

Yup on the LFPR stagnation: progree Aug 2018 #22

That's where they got the bogus 40% unemployment claim. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #25

And the "94 million jobless Americans" that Trump talked about in his campaign progree Aug 2018 #26

What can you do ? DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2018 #27

Analysis and charts at The Wall Street Journal. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 #14

This is no better than videohead5 Aug 2018 #23

I do this just about every month. There have been a few exceptions. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 #24

The mind-numbing rant, based on a version posted on the first Friday in September 2016: mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 #28