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To: txrangerette
BLS - Sep 2008

Labor Force - 154.7 million
Employment - 145.3 million



BLS - Aug 2013

Labor Force - 155.5 million
Employment - 144.2 million

68 posted on 09/16/2013 5:41:02 AM PDT by Hoodat (BENGHAZI - 4 KILLED, 2 MIA)
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To: Hoodat

The labor force is 800K larger now too. Based on those numbers alone any fool can see the unemployment rate has gone up. Note, you should also look at underemployment...

On these numbers alone, darned near 2 million MORE people are out of work that are in the labor force.


71 posted on 09/16/2013 5:59:54 AM PDT by jurroppi1
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