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| The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 7:54 am)
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oldcharlie8 
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 7:55 am to redandright)
not too bad.
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Lsut81 
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 7:56 am to redandright)
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Lsut81
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 7:57 am to oldcharlie8)
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not too bad.
Not too bad?
All we heard for years and years was that we needed to add 250k jobs a month in order to just keep up with population growth/dropouts... We haven't even come close to that number consistently, yet the unemployment rate dropped... Why? BC people are leaving the workforce and going onto the government teet 
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Taxing Authority
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 7:58 am to redandright)
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The ho-hum jobs numbers for January were accompanied by substantial revisions higher for previous months, according to the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
November's numbers rose from the originally reported 161,000 to 247,000, while December was pushed upward to 196,000 from 155,000.
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lsuroadie
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 7:59 am to redandright)
:b4sandy:
:nb4repubsfault:
:nb4sequestration:
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redandright
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 7:59 am to oldcharlie8)
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not too bad.
Yep, if you live in Greece, that's great news.
Oh, wait.
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oldcharlie8
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:01 am to Lsut81)
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All we heard for years and years was that we needed to add 250k jobs a month in order to just keep up with population growth...
who said this? i didn't hear this.
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CC
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:01 am to redandright)
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However, a separate unemployment measure that also takes into account those who have quit looking for jobs as well as those working part-time for economic reasons remained unchanged at 14.4 percent.
This is the important part.
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GumboPot
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:04 am to oldcharlie8)
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not too bad.
New normal.
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oldcharlie8
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:06 am to GumboPot)
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not too bad.
New normal.
hey...i'm an optimistic republican. unlike most other republicans, I WANT MY COUNTRY TO DO WELL UNDER THIS IDIOT.
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Taxing Authority
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:06 am to oldcharlie8)
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not too bad.
Wonder what the narrative would be if a Republican were president, and we had 7.8% unemployment (and rising)? "Not too bad" doesn't seem too likely.
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oldcharlie8
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:07 am to Taxing Authority)
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Wonder what the narrative would be if a Republican were president, and we had 7.8% unemployment (and rising)? "Not too bad" doesn't seem too likely.
i'm republican and would praise it the same.
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Roaad
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:07 am to redandright)
What difference does it make?
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CITWTT
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:07 am to oldcharlie8)
The F'ing media reported that as fact for many years, so you must have pulled a Rip Van Winkle for quite some time to say you never heard about it.
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wickowick
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:08 am to Taxing Authority)
and how many people have taken a hair cut on hours with Obamacare starting to kick in...
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oldcharlie8
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:09 am to CITWTT)
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The F'ing media reported that as fact for many years,
ok... i guess i believe you.
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GumboPot
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:10 am to oldcharlie8)
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hey...i'm an optimistic republican. unlike most other republicans,
I was once one of those. I'm now a cynical conservative with libertarian leanings.
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Lsut81
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:11 am to oldcharlie8)
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who said this? i didn't hear this.
Then you've been living in a hole... Its been talked about multiple times on the news...
I misspoke in regards to the 250k, that was the estimates in order to keep up with population, drop outs, etc...
Population grown is between 90k-160k depending on what source you read.
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BugAC
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| re: The New Full Employment Numbers (Posted on 2/1/13 at 8:12 am to oldcharlie8)
I will do my analysis of the Bureau of labor statistics, but just wanted to leave this here real quick.
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Unemployment Rate:
7.9% in Jan 2013
Change in Unemployment Level:
+126,000 in Jan 2013
Change in Employment Level:
+17,000 in Jan 2013
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