Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Latest Breaking News

progree

(10,907 posts)

12. I see we gained more than a million jobs compared to last month's report:

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Apr 2, 2021, 10:39 AM

Apr 2021

From BLS, in post number 2

With these revisions, employment in January and February combined was 156,000 higher than previously reported.

+916,000 jobs added in March
+156,000 upward revision in January and February combined
------------------------------------------------------
+1,072,000 Additional jobs in today's report compared to the February report that came out March 5.

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

16 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March as recovery gains steam again [View all] BumRushDaShow Apr 2021 OP

Good morning. As you know, KYW was saying this morning that an increase of 500,000 was expected. mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2021 #1

I was actually surprised they did it this week BumRushDaShow Apr 2021 #4

That was ADP's number on Wednesday IronLionZion Apr 2021 #6

ADP handles about 20% of payrolls. As for how they estimate the other 80%, I have no idea progree Apr 2021 #10

For brevity, I snipped BLS's industry-by-industry job gain data, but it's in their report. mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2021 #13

From the source: mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2021 #2

Links to earlier reports: mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2021 #3

This is awesome. When the President's Infrastructure Plan is passed, unemployment will eventually ancianita Apr 2021 #5

Not likely Unemployment will ever be at Zero Norbert Apr 2021 #7

Theoretically, I agree. But in reality, when this rolls out, everyone who wants and needs a job ancianita Apr 2021 #8

Kick for all to see...Great News!!! Stuart G Apr 2021 #9

Links to some BLS Data Series Numbers and Graphs. progree Apr 2021 #11

I see we gained more than a million jobs compared to last month's report: progree Apr 2021 #12

Was about to hunt for the revisions. BumRushDaShow Apr 2021 #15

Biden's mantra all along was get control of the virus and the jobs will return. llmart Apr 2021 #14

Biden Economist Plans To Tackle Economic Disparities Caused By COVID-19 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2021 #16