[JohnnyZ]

This is more accurate. They are really high paying jobs too i.e. McDonalds, Walmart, Costco.

Those are not small firms and self-employed, as you know.

It certainly sounds like some of these surveys need to be evaluated for accuracy.

[raloxk]

"This is more accurate. They are really high paying jobs too i.e. McDonalds, Walmart, Costco."




These are EXACTLY the jobs that ARE captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Establish Survey that shows 62,000 jobs lost over the past year.

What is not being capture by the BLS but is by the Household Survey are home business. I saw where the percent of the labor force that is self employed went from 6% in 2000 to over 7% in 2003. That is approximately 1.5 million people who probably left corprate american to start a business. That isnt captured by the BLS