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Yellen: Unemployment Rate 'Less Rosy' When You Count Part-Time, Discouraged Workers
CNS News ^ | February 24, 2015 | Ali Meyer

Posted on 02/24/2015 5:36:17 PM PST by Son House

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Remember Gallup's CEO recently said the unemployment rate is not right either. How much has the Federal reserve propped up the economy = to the tune of QE3 $80 billion a month and keeping interest rates low. Does that create jobs?

Instead of hounding Gov Walker with got-cha questions, the media should be asking Democrat Economist why their economic policies don't work as advertised?

1 posted on 02/24/2015 5:36:17 PM PST by Son House
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To: Son House

Employment numbers “less rosy” when the books are not cooked to death..


2 posted on 02/24/2015 5:37:16 PM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: Son House

That’s right up there with — “Well, aside from that, how did you enjoy the theater Mrs Lincoln?”


3 posted on 02/24/2015 5:37:42 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The dog days are over /The dog days are done/Can you hear the horses? /'Cause here they come)
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To: Son House

I think QE stopped in October.


4 posted on 02/24/2015 5:38:11 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Son House

Plus the no longer in the work force = 92 Million adults.


5 posted on 02/24/2015 5:38:57 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Son House

Every democrat says the policies are working. They are all liars and they brainwash their stupid voters to believe all the lies.
Ugh I am so sick of it I can not tell you.


6 posted on 02/24/2015 5:39:02 PM PST by funfan
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To: ClearCase_guy

Good one!


7 posted on 02/24/2015 5:39:46 PM PST by funfan
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To: Son House

In other words, the unemployment statistics are BS and not what the average person defines “unemployed”.


8 posted on 02/24/2015 5:42:57 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Son House

The unemployement rate is bogus, accomplished only by moving an ever-bigger segment of American off the roles completely.

93.6 million and (ever) climbing.


9 posted on 02/24/2015 5:44:10 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Shadow44

Yes.


10 posted on 02/24/2015 5:44:32 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Son House

More news you won’t see on CNN or reported by ABC.


11 posted on 02/24/2015 5:52:41 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Son House

Until the Commie pink fag Kenyan is gone, nothing will improve.


12 posted on 02/24/2015 5:53:10 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: Son House

Unexpected.


13 posted on 02/24/2015 5:55:41 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Ob)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Well, what do you suggest? Right now, you are in the workforce if you made any attempt in the past four weeks to find a job, including such a simple act as glancing through the job listings or asking a buddy if he knew of any opportunities. That seems about as loose as they can get.


14 posted on 02/24/2015 5:59:25 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: george76

That is an old number.

It is now 93.6 million, actually it now rounds up to 93.7 million.

And ever-growing.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t16.htm


15 posted on 02/24/2015 5:59:34 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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I suggest we (America) bring back American manufacturing.

That is what I suggest.


16 posted on 02/24/2015 6:00:36 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Yellen either didn’t get Obama’s memo to the Lamestream Media or she is honest. Little evidence that things are picking up
and Obama turns down Keystone jobs, repatriation on cash, and brings in millions of illegals to undercut wage increases and reimployement of long term Americans out of jobs.


17 posted on 02/24/2015 6:00:47 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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Old Yellen needs to tell this to the NY Times, the Washington Post and the other remnants of the mainstream media that have been parroting these phony numbers about a “booming” economy with joy and little critical analysis.


18 posted on 02/24/2015 6:04:12 PM PST by laconic
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To: EEGator

Seem to remember they were going to slowly phase out QE3, not sure that it ended yet, but the point I would like to make is all propping-up the Federal Reserve has been doing.


19 posted on 02/24/2015 6:29:10 PM PST by Son House (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009; the Original Legislative Fraud.)
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“However, the labor force participation rate is lower than most estimates of its trend, and wage growth remains sluggish, suggesting that some cyclical weakness persists,” said Yellen.

...

If only she were allowed to tell the truth.


20 posted on 02/24/2015 6:39:05 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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