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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
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