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Why A Higher Unemployment Rate Is Actually Good News This Time
Huffington Post ^
| 08/01/14
| Mark Gongloff
Posted on 08/01/2014 8:36:16 AM PDT by nhwingut
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Let's explain how the labor force participation rate works now that it is not helping the drive-by headline... So predictable.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:36:16 AM PDT
by
nhwingut
To: nhwingut
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:39:20 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: bgill
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To: nhwingut
Seriously? This isn’t a satirical jab at the MSM?
And they’re continuing with this theme?
Seriously? OK...
Well, 11.5 million people are out of the workforce and they are still eating, texting, cellphoning, XBoxing, Driving, smoking, drinking beer and watching TV.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:42:04 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: nhwingut
How many were part-time jobs?
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:42:52 AM PDT
by
Signalman
To: nhwingut
The HuffPo used to be verboten here...
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:43:40 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
(If Obama hated America and wanted to destroy her, what would he do differently?)
To: bgill
Yep. Right up there with headlines like: ‘Why high gas prices are actually good’ (A real CNN headline)
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:44:25 AM PDT
by
nhwingut
(This tagline for lease)
To: Signalman
How many were part-time jobs?I'll put the over/under at 75%.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:45:45 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi!)
To: nhwingut
Maybe the rate is going up because the non-employed people have run out of money, benefits and relatives willing to keep them afloat.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:46:41 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: nhwingut
They’re point is that it’s because more people are looking for a job now. They are actually correct in this, but why don’t they then report the full news of how many Americans are NOT employed nor looking for a job?
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:47:41 AM PDT
by
MNDude
To: nhwingut
You can't reason with idiots. They will drag you down to your level and beat you with experience.
I pointed out to one lib that gas prices were around $2.50 per gallon in the sour Bush economy when both labor participation rate was much higher and the unemployment rate was much lower.
His reply: What does it matter? People who aren't working can't afford to buy gas anyway.
This during an era when 90% of the EBT card users in grocery store checkout lines bought better food than I could afford and drove away in better cars than I could afford.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:50:27 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: nhwingut
So they are looking,big deal,tell me when they find full time jobs
To: nhwingut
As Richard Pryor once said...”Who are you gonna believe? Me,or your lyin’ eyes?
To: nhwingut
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:53:43 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Funemployment. I remember that headline when this mess started. :(
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:54:47 AM PDT
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: nhwingut
It helps, because, the Fed cannot stop printing free money.
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posted on
08/01/2014 8:58:07 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
To: MNDude
That’s my point exactly. When they were getting the headline they needed (e.g. Unemployment rate drops), they never mentioned the reason was mostly due to a historically low labor force. They just ran with it, and hoped the low infos bought into it. Now that the headline is going to be ‘Unemployment Rate Goes Up’ they need to explain to the rubes that this is actually not a bad thing.
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:05:32 AM PDT
by
nhwingut
(This tagline for lease)
To: nhwingut
Down is up.
Wrong is right.
I loathe Stalinits dupes.
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posted on
08/01/2014 9:07:29 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
To: nhwingut
Gongloff would not see good news in a higher unemployment rate under a Republican administration. He wouldn’t even TRY to find good news in that scenario.
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