By the way, don't think that the Bureaur of Labor Statistics information can't be fact-checked, especially in the age of the Internet. Close analysis of the internals could reveal a large number of people giving up on finding a job, and that information could haunt Obama to no end.
Exactly! I'm not one with knowledge enough to do such an analysis but if the info is available to the public I'm sure there are several Freepers who have that knowledge to fact check these numbers.
7.8% from 8.1% - in October? After a whole term of 8%+? After that terrible debate performance?
I expected it to go up .1% but look at the drop.
Holiday hiring perhaps?
The BLS receives their data from the states, plus there is a ‘secret sauce’ added to the mix. There is no exact science to this funny number.