[BenLurkin]

4.8 is pretty much “full employment”.

[Santa Fe_Conservative]

Ouch...

[MeSpikeLibs]

Media setting up a bad economy for a democrat candidate.

[Yo-Yo]

Women and minorities hardest hit.

[Brilliant]

Possibly what’s happening is that the illegals are going home in larger numbers, reducing the unemployment rate, but also putting downward pressure on the economy.

[kidd]

Unemployment during the Clinton years was ~5.4% and that was touted as boom times.

[Non-Sequitur]

OK net job loss of 63,000 for the month and unemployment rate goes down? Are these figures computed by the same ones who do the balanced budget calculations?

[CurlyDave]

This is pretty much going to keep on happening for 15-20 years.

The boomers are retiring.

About a year ago I voluntarily left the work force — retirement. I am one of the oldest boomers.

This is a triumph of free enterprise. People have actually been able to accumulate enough capital to quit working.

[FreePaul]

The unemployment rate dipped to 4.8 percent as people leave the labor force.

I wonder if any of these "statistics" give any consideration to the large number of people who have never put themselves in "the labor force." As long as some people can get income, groceries, drugs (legal and illegal) and some place to live they don't bother to look for employment much less anything resembling labor.

[RightWhale]

unemployment rate dipped to 4.8 percent as people leave the labor force.

How does one leave the labor force? Move into parent's basement?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]