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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Wed Jul 18, 2012, 01:40 PM Jul 2012

Gallup showing 7.9 and 7.7 SA, Unemployment as of 7/15

http://www.gallup.com/poll/155744/Unemployment-Down-Slightly-Mid-July.aspx

Just saying

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Gallup showing 7.9 and 7.7 SA, Unemployment as of 7/15 (Original Post) Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2012 OP

good. I wish we could use their numbers the first Friday of every month. WI_DEM Jul 2012 #1

By the time the numbers are "adjusted" 5% unemployment can become 15% SoutherDem Jul 2012 #2

This is almost meaningless anymore, Lionessa Jul 2012 #3

WI_DEM

(33,497 posts)

1. good. I wish we could use their numbers the first Friday of every month.

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 01:42 PM

Jul 2012

SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)

2. By the time the numbers are "adjusted" 5% unemployment can become 15%

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 01:44 PM

Jul 2012

Last month almost 800,000 jobs were discounted as "seasonal".

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)

3. This is almost meaningless anymore,

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Wed Jul 18, 2012, 01:47 PM

Jul 2012

So more people are working, but unfortunately the quality of jobs, pay, and bennies have been so attacked that being employed no longer means one can become a "consumer" of much more than the bear necessities, and what we need is employment that creates consumers of more than food, gas, necessities.

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