Posted on 10/03/2004 5:53:44 PM PDT by AngryCapitalist
Anybody have any insight into the outcome of Friday's jobs report? The second debate will be later that evening and I'm quite sure that the subject will be brought up once or twice. I know that economists are expecting 150,000 but the effects of the recent string of hurricanes might have a negative effect.
Also... Dose anyone know where I can find historical data concerning the monthly jobs report. I never remember this index being discussed before the jobs boom of the 90s. Is this a recent addition to the regularly released series of indexes? Or was this simply developed to help reinforce the myth of the “Clinton economy”?
The larger fact is that in October the Labor Department makes the final corrections for all the monthly reports for the year. I predict that the total number of jobs in the United States as of that day will be LARGER than the number when Clinton left office and left a recession behind him. THAT will gut-shoot Kerry's whole argument behind his "domestic plan."
Congressman Billybob
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(a) Not enough jobs will be created.
(b) The jobs created will not pay enough.
(c) The jobs created will not have adequate healthcare coverage.
(d) The job situation in the US is still miserable and all George Bush's fault.
(e) All of the above.
Sound familiar?
Historical data:
http://data.bls.gov/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=CES0000000001&output_view=net_1mth
What about tuition being too high? Also, the huricanes were Bush's fault.
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