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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT mac.com>]

still, payroll increases do not necessarily correlate with job increases

i mean, a handful of execs getting million dollar bonuses could tweak 
numbers like that

(not that i am just putting that forward, not saying it applies, im 
busy so i didnt read the data...yet)

~ian


On Apr 12, 2004, at 3:03 PM, Tony Spencer wrote:

> You guys are getting it all wrong.  The massive job growth reported on 
> April
> 2nd was a measure of *payroll* increase, not a measure of the number of
> unemployment claims.
>
> <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ian 
> Meyer
> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 2:19 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/;
> kurt.schlatzer AT flashpoint.com
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Economic growth figures rigged?
>
> Why, if you aren't on unemployment, you *must* be employed!
>
> Its not possible that someone could possible not get a job, and even if
> their unemployment ran out instead of ending early, I'm sure that it
> was immediately followed by getting hired
>
> So of course, less people on unemployment means more people in jobs, it
> can't be that there are so few jobs that people are running out of
> unemployment and still not finding work, no, that can't be happening!
>
> Jeez...I feel so unclean after typing that...
>
> I had a gentleman come through my line the other day at the HT, he was
> clean, average dressed (not fancy, but clean clothes, reasonably nice)
> and it was his first time using his new EBT (Electronic Benefit
> Transfer--welfare) card to buy groceries after he lost his job. He was
> even asking about if we were hiring at the HT. Now, I know better than
> to judge a book by its cover, but something tells me that when someone
> that looks like they have more than half a brain and obviously work
> experience is thinking about taking an unskilled labor job such as
> working at a grocery store, there is something wrong going on.
>
> My $0.02
> Ian
>
> On Apr 12, 2004, at 1:56 PM, Kurt Schlatzer wrote:
>
> > Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> >
> > > For a while now we've been told the economy's in a recovery, but have
> > > been wondering why there isn't more job growth.
> >
> > It seems like we continuously hear that the number of people claiming
> > unemployment compensation keeps dropping and it's spun as job growth. 
> > I
> > wonder if people who exhaust their unemployment benefits and remain
> > unemployed are still counted among the unemployed, or if they drop off
> > the
> > roster. When I exhausted my benefits, nobody cared if I found work
> > after
> > that point and I didn't have to turn in work search reports to the 
> > ESC.
> >
> > Kurt Schlatzer
> > www.kurtschlatzer.com
> >
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