[Cringing Negativism Network]

BUNK.

The number of potential employees, dropped by the same amount. Four tenths of one percent.

This number is complete bunk.

[MrB]

Yeah, the unemployment rate is only 1% above what is considered full employment...

raaaaahhhht...

[montag813]

The economic rebound, which the media will accrue 100% to Obama and ObamaCare, plus the GOP’s betrayal of their base on immigration, may well cause White voters to stay home this fall, and see the Senate remain with a Democrat majority.

[P-Marlowe]

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The American economy gained steam in April, adding 288,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent, the lowest level since September 2008.

Okay. So the GDP fell because of the weather but companies started hiring like crazy? ROTFL! Hey Kids! It's FUN WITH NUMBERS Friday!!!! Woo! Hoo!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[Vigilanteman]

LIke BO, the New York Slimes thinks that people giving up and dropping out of the work force is a good thing.

[CSM]

“But the good news was tempered by a drop of 806,000 in the number of Americans in the labor force,”

Only the “paper of record” that isn’t fit to line a birdcage would consider a labor force reduction to be good news.

[Steely Tom]

Hasn't basically every one of these rosy unemployment (and for that matter GDP growth) numbers been walked back during this administration?

Add to that the fact that the phony concept of the "labor participation rate" makes the whole thing a farce anyway. They can just arbitrarily take any number of millions of long-term unemployed, toss them into the category of "discouraged job seeker," and = poof = they come off the "unemployed" total, thereby decreasing that percentage.

[JPG]

YES--The economy/employment kind of sucks...

BUT--We're making steady progress.

Thanks, NY Times. We knew we could count on you to spin, spin, spin.

[fatnotlazy]

From which orifice do these “economists” pull out their numbers?

[wbill]

a drop of 806,000 in the number of Americans in the labor force

That's enormous.

[MortMan]

Hmmm... I wonder if this has something to do with the record low labor-participation rate I saw reported this morning.

[Reeses]

The New York Times is a pen name for Pravda on the Hudson.

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[lacrew]

Want to get depressed? Look at the labor participation rate:

http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet

It hasn’t been this low since...the 1970’s.

[Redmen4ever]

http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2014/05/unemployment-drops-labor-participation.html

[skeeter]

But the good news was tempered by a drop of 806,000 in the number of Americans in the labor force

Er, could it possible be the unemployment rate dropped because the labor participation dropped?

The lies are coming harder & harder these days.

[Teacher317]

806,000 dropped out... IN ONE MONTH?!?!?!? At the beginning of the Spring and Summer seasonal work periods?!?

That's a rate of 10 MILLION per year.

The entire workforce of the state of Connecticut disappeared in ONE MONTH!!!
The entire workforce of California plus Kentucky would be gone in one year at that rate!!!

(There are only 170 million working-age adults in the entire US.)

And the MSM, as always, reliably ignores the insane data that this White House is oozing out.

[4rcane]

Yet the economy only grew 0.1%. The stats are rigged