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sofia
05-07-2010, 08:23 PM
"MORE AMERICANS WORKING DESPITE JOBLESS RATE UPTICK."

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/07/unemployment-labor-jobs-markets-economy-consumer-manufacturing.html?partner=relatedstoriesbox
Kotin
05-07-2010, 08:24 PM
lol holy shit..
Fozz
05-07-2010, 08:25 PM
Makes sense. When jobs numbers improve, then more people may start looking for work, and that enlarges the workforce and unemployment goes up again.
Vessol
05-07-2010, 08:26 PM
Doublethink: Now taught in all Journalism schools!
sofia
05-07-2010, 08:27 PM
Now...if the U-3 rate goes down next month by .2.......

will the headlines read...

"Less people working, despite drop in unemployment."

With an explanation of how people dropping back out of the labor pool was responsible for the decrease in unemployment???
sofia
05-07-2010, 08:28 PM
Makes sense. When jobs numbers improve, then more people may start looking for work, and that enlarges the workforce and unemployment goes up again.

but the U-6 numbers (the overall total unemployed) ALSO went up......to 17.1......so that's not the case here...
Son of Detroit
05-07-2010, 08:29 PM
In other news, chocolate rations are up 20%.
sofia
05-07-2010, 08:30 PM
In other news, chocolate rations are up 20%.

double plus good!
tremendoustie
05-07-2010, 08:32 PM
Kinda like how when prices skyrocket on everything you spend money on on a regular basis, like food, housing, and gas, it means "core" inflation is zero.
sofia
05-07-2010, 08:34 PM
Kinda like how when prices skyrocket on everything you spend money on on a regular basis, like food, housing, and gas, it means "core" inflation is zero.

if you give up eating and move into a cardboard box.......inflation wont affect you..

lol
Eryxis
05-07-2010, 08:37 PM
I may be a simpleton, but the formula for unemployment percentage should be... unemployed workers/total workers. I define total workers as all non-disabled adults between the age of 18-65.
Philhelm
05-07-2010, 08:38 PM
In other news, chocolate rations are up 20%.

Awww...beat me to it.
Anti Federalist
05-07-2010, 09:35 PM
"MORE AMERICANS WORKING DESPITE JOBLESS RATE UPTICK."

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/07/unemployment-labor-jobs-markets-economy-consumer-manufacturing.html?partner=relatedstoriesbox

Wow, that actually hurt my mind trying wrap my brain around that.

So, there are more jobs, but at the same time more people that are looking for work that were not working but not considered unemployed.
RideTheDirt
05-07-2010, 11:34 PM
I may be a simpleton, but the formula for unemployment percentage should be... unemployed workers/total workers. I define total workers as all non-disabled adults between the age of 18-65.
That's too easy for the Keynesians
aravoth
05-07-2010, 11:38 PM
"MORE AMERICANS WORKING DESPITE JOBLESS RATE UPTICK."


http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c370/aravoth/rs7j89.gif
WaltM
05-08-2010, 02:37 AM
it gets better with the numbers!!

The unemployment rate climbs to 9.9% in April, but the economy adds 290,000 jobs, well ahead of expectations
pcosmar
05-08-2010, 07:41 AM
What will happen to the numbers when the census is finished?

Thousands were hired here, How about where you are?
sofia
05-08-2010, 10:23 AM
What will happen to the numbers when the census is finished?

Thousands were hired here, How about where you are?

The census workers will not have worked long enough to collect unemployment. So they will probably just disappear and not be measured as unemployed.