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Hiring surge adds 313K jobs in February, most in 1 ½ years
abcnews/AP ^ | Christopher Rugaber

Posted on 03/09/2018 5:38:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux

US employers went on a hiring binge last month, adding 313,000 jobs, the most since July 2016, and drawing hundreds of thousands of people into the job market.

The Labor Department says wage gains, meanwhile, fell from the previous month to 2.6 percent year-over-year growth. Strong hourly wage growth had spooked markets in February because it raised the specter of inflation. But January's figure was revised one-tenth of a point lower to 2.8 percent.

The influx of new workers kept the unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1 percent.

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To: SeekAndFind

The retail trade number is surprising. I thought we were entering a retail ice age.


21 posted on 03/09/2018 7:07:25 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
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To: SeekAndFind

22 posted on 03/09/2018 7:07:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: RoosterRedux

RE: The retail trade number is surprising. I thought we were entering a retail ice age.

Is Amazon considered retail?


23 posted on 03/09/2018 7:08:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Thx for your good work.:-)


24 posted on 03/09/2018 7:08:53 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
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To: RoosterRedux

But what about the really important issues like gender identity and transgender bathrooms? (sarcasm).


25 posted on 03/09/2018 7:08:59 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: SeekAndFind

Interesting... the Current Wage is missing for the USPS.

Thanks for all this info.


26 posted on 03/09/2018 7:10:32 AM PST by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Is Amazon considered retail?

I'm not sure how Amazon is treated in these numbers.

27 posted on 03/09/2018 7:12:43 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
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To: SeekAndFind
In thinking about it, I don't think very many of Amazons employees (if any) would be considered retail.

Most Amazon workers are in warehouses and fulfillment centers (and that would not be considered retail).

28 posted on 03/09/2018 7:15:07 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
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“...The influx of new workers kept the unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1 percent...”

Does this mean that "off the books" workers are now getting employed and are being counted?

29 posted on 03/09/2018 7:22:03 AM PST by az_gila
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To: SeekAndFind
Yet the more I think about it, the more I have to admit I just don't know.

If the numbers are counted using the companies' IRS classifications, Amazon may be consider retail, regardless of the actual jobs of the employees.

30 posted on 03/09/2018 7:26:54 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
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The influx of new workers kept the unemployment rate unchanged at 4.1 percent.

Wonder the legal status of them "new workers" that kept the unemployment rate from going down....

31 posted on 03/09/2018 7:28:51 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: RoosterRedux

I still think that all talk of retail apocalypse is a little overblown. The fact is — Most people still want to TOUCH, TRY and FEEL products before they buy them.

I should know, I have too many women in my life who shop not to know :)


32 posted on 03/09/2018 7:35:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: RoosterRedux

Waiting to hear from Pelosi that this is just “crumbs”, and somehow bad for the USA.


33 posted on 03/09/2018 7:39:25 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: SeekAndFind

The labor participation growth with something like 835000. That is the highest since 1983.


34 posted on 03/09/2018 7:43:21 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: SeekAndFind

I agree.


35 posted on 03/09/2018 7:45:33 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
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BTTT


36 posted on 03/09/2018 8:06:05 AM PST by Enlightened1
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Donald J. Trump ‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 2m2 minutes ago JOBS, JOBS, JOBS! #MAGA
37 posted on 03/09/2018 8:49:10 AM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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Lol - love it


38 posted on 03/09/2018 8:49:52 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RoosterRedux; All

39 posted on 03/09/2018 8:55:05 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: RoosterRedux

Not tired of WINNING yet.


40 posted on 03/09/2018 9:37:32 AM PST by thescourged1
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