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To: kosciusko51

Then what was the purpose of pointing that out?


30 posted on 06/04/2018 6:27:51 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: joesbucks

You (post #7): “Remember when the unemployment rate numbers were touted as meaningless stats, but the true number was the labor force utilization rate? That rate for the overall population ticked down .1% again to 62.7%. .2% lower than when the President took office in Jan., 2017.”

Me (post #26): “I notice that the labor force utilization rate has remained more or less flat since 2016 after 8 years of steady decline.”

The point is that the small fluctuation that you are pointing out is noise compared to the drop that occurred from 2008 to 2016, and the minor drop since Trump was elected is more or less noise, given the data from 2016 to now. Others have commented on the why.


31 posted on 06/04/2018 6:58:46 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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