Yup. Here are two alternate measures.
Gallup:
Shadowstats:
Posted on 10/08/2010 5:44:19 AM PDT by quesney
I posted a few weeks ago that non-census government layoffs were going to be a big negative employment factor for the foreseeable future. My state and local government have announced brutal cuts, but haven’t performed them yet. More civil servants are in the pipeline.
I posted a few weeks ago that non-census government layoffs were going to be a big negative employment factor for the foreseeable future. My state and local government have announced brutal cuts, but haven’t performed them yet. More civil servants are in the pipeline.
Happy Daze are just a stimuli away.
Remember high school chem lab? Same deal. The technical term is "fudge factor".
Thanks.
If you’ve been here, you know how it feels.
U-6 unemployment measure jumps from 16.7% to 17.1%
It should be pointed out that the Gallup numbers are not seasonally adjusted.
You are correct and you beat me in making the same statement.
The only good democrat, is a former Democrat!
Shouldn’t this be called great news? The private economy added 64K jobs - the loss was from shedding 159K GOVERNMENT jobs.
What is that odor? B.O.?
Private sector jobs went up 64K - perhaps they aren’t covered by ADP payroll. (We certainly aren’t.)
We did lose 1.8 million jobs last month and the rate didn’t budge.
New weekly unemployment claims have been reported weekly as 450,000 and change for months. That is a rate approaching 2 million actual, that is real, lost jobs per month.
What’s going to be the Obama admin spin on this one?
These numbers are obviously faked.
Unemployment is ~20.0%, not the lie of 9.6%.
Not to sound like one of the tinfoil hat brigade, but it doesn’t surprise me that they didn’t put out the “real” numbers. I was discussing this elsewhere and I stated that if the unemployment percentage went up to 10 percent, the Dems were screwed even WORSE than they are now.
Because of unnecessary construction projects. They're all day traffic jams now.
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