Election 2012 Sep 7, 2012 at 11:29 am

Some Perspective on Those Jobs Numbers

Eli Sanders
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A new record of 88,921,00 Americans are not even in the labor force. 368,000 dropped out of the labor force in just the last month. 518,000 total since June. That wipes out all and then some of those jobs created. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01…
Barfolomew on September 7, 2012 at 12:05 PM Report this
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' it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report'

Unless you've said that every single month for three years -
D on September 7, 2012 at 1:23 PM Report this

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