[ptsal]

Well, the books are not "cooked".

...Just omitted one of the ingredients from the recipe....

Nothing like leaving out the sour data from one big state to sweeten the message.

[Mich Patriot]

"This happens occasionally, our source says."

Yeah, like when their hero is getting his ass toasted in the polls. Also, some mistakes of omission are done on purpose. Color me SKEPTICAL AS HELL.

FUBO!

[Yashcheritsiy]

Assertions that "a large state" was excluded from the report are patently false.

Sure. Only most of a large state was left out.

[VRWC For Truth]

Lies, dang lies, and statistics. Normalize = fudge factor. Aka SWAG. Total bovine excrement.

[Abiotic]

I truly hope that all these outright manipulations of the UE/jobs numbers once and for all expose the entire system for the pure rot that it is. Real UE is well northward of 17%, I would say it is around 20%, and millions are working part-time when they desperately need full time work.

If/when Romney is elected, I so so hope that the BS ends, although there will be a powerful block that once again will take the position of ‘untruth in the numbers’ simply because their side now is in power.

[XenaLee]

Sooo...it’s not that the numbers were excluded by the BLS. It’s just that they were not included.

Got it.

[dila813]

The other thing, due to seasonal adjustments, these are usually adjusted down

If you kill a large ag state input like cali, you would further skew the data.

[Michael.SF.]

Who goofed, I've got to know!

[over3Owithabrain]

I read an article from conservative NRO that explained the 7.8 UE number was not a conspiracy but an “accounting fluke” that happens once out of 100 times.

Now these missing California numbers “happen occasionally”.

So both of these are flukes - one happening right after Obama’s bad debate, and the other on the morning of the VP debate.

Oooookkkkkk.....

[Wuli]

I see - there was not enough in federal stimulus coffers helping out the near-bankrupt state of Mexifornia; so we can blame the GOP in the House of Representatives for the bad data given to the BLS, I guess?? /sarc

[CodeToad]

One of the dirty secrets the report does not contain is the number of people rejected for unemploment insurance. States are seriously backlogged at getting claims processed so those in the backlog are not included in the report. The number of people that have failed to get their claims approved number in the hundreds of thousands. Colorado, for instance, is at least two months behind, and that’s the official and low number. So, if we were to include the number of people waiting to get their UI claims processed the number for the week would be at least 1000,000 higher.

[CityCenter]

Seems like bad news for Obama to me. Those numbers will inflate future reports closer to the election. How sad is that? /s

[pabianice]

Gee. If the bad grades I got in college “had not been reported,” I would have graduated on the dean’s list! Today’s system in which Fs are not counted is just some of the PC bullshit that makes most colleges worthless.

[LibLieSlayer]

Henry... you lie for satan... California DID NOT TURN IN A REPORT... PERIOD.

LLS

[DCBurgess58]

According to the author, they verified the numbers with "a source" in the Labobor department... "a source"... that would be ONE PERSON... Which person... how objective is that person... might that person be a Democrat? Considering that the author is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN and NPR, might this author also be a Democrat? Where is the evidence that backs up the claim that any skewing of numbers is related to a single weeks data that is missing from a single state? The author has offered no tangible evidence to verify that these numbers are, in fact, for the most part accurate. He is just forwarding words from a single individual. "No need to dwell on this folks, no fire here, move along". As we all know, people never lie, do they?

I am more inclined to believe Jack Welsh, who says that in order to have the huge jump in employment that these numbers represent, we would see a booming ecomomy. That there would be other noticble ecomomic indicators that we were finally recovering. Until I see persons with gravatas, like Jack Welsh, saying that they can see indicators of a recovery, I'm going to be prone to look askance at improbable numbers like these coming out of Obama's government departments.

[throwback]

So it is known for a fact that the unemployment rate is NOT 7.8% at this time. They don’t know what it is, but it’s higher.

[Madame Dufarge]

The emperor is not naked.

He just neglected to include his clothes.

[tomkat]

This happens occasionally, our source says. When a state's jobless claims bureau is short-staffed . . .

             

[The Cajun]

We spoke to a source at the Labor Department. According to this source, who is an analyst at the Department, here's what happened:.............

Did he add "Yeah, that's the ticket" after his little explanation?

[Jane Long]

SSDD.