120k just added, yay... 552k left the workforce, boo

[dogtowner]

and so the increasingly irrelevant jobless rate goes down a tenth point.

tack on 3xxk 1st time claims (note thats FIRST TIME) every week.

only thing I don't understand is why there are not throngs of people with pitchforks and baseball bats at the fence of the White House daily.

failure, thy name is Obama.

 

[Cruella]

A half million people fell off the unemployment rolls but didn't find a job in one month?

I wonder what the "REAL" unemployment rate is.

 

[dogtowner]

A half million people fell off the unemployment rolls but didn't find a job in one month?

I wonder what the "REAL" unemployment rate is.

several ways to measure it but the best is 10.4%. the worst more like 17%+