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brentspeak

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26. Real jobs or McJobs?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 8, 2013, 01:01 PM

Mar 2013

Full-time employment that pay a solid salary plus benefits...or temp jobs that pay crap and no benefits?

Funny how the cheerleaders never complain that both today's Democrats and Republican presidents and members of Congress don't mind having the U-3 (rather than the more honest U-6) as the Official Unemployment figure.

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February payroll employment rises (+236,000); unemployment rate edges down (7.7%) [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2013 OP

Encouraging numbers alcibiades_mystery Mar 2013 #1

Who cares? The election is over. Dawgs Mar 2013 #2

Must be why Fox and CNN didn't report this at the top of the hour this morning Life Long Dem Mar 2013 #23

Be skeptical of these numbers... Proletariatprincess Mar 2013 #3

At least read the links - the BLS numbers aren't cooked bhikkhu Mar 2013 #13

If GW Bush was still in office you wouldn't be so critical of my comment. Proletariatprincess Mar 2013 #38

What a freepy statement. nt Comrade_McKenzie Mar 2013 #25

your comment makes no sense at all... Proletariatprincess Mar 2013 #39

Is that you, Alex? Tarheel_Dem Mar 2013 #28

But what about ADPs report. Norbert Mar 2013 #37

Why would ADP have more credibility? Proletariatprincess Mar 2013 #40

Strong jobs report expected to fuel stocks OKNancy Mar 2013 #4

Obama is a communist, a muslin and an atheist Kingofalldems Mar 2013 #5

but I thought "muslin" is a type of cloth n/t James48 Mar 2013 #8

Not in the RW Faux Snooze world. BumRushDaShow Mar 2013 #19

They were pre-reporting 7.8 yesterday. So that's pretty good. nt onehandle Mar 2013 #6

Debby Downer Disapproves. jpak Mar 2013 #7

DailyJobCuts.com OverDone Mar 2013 #9

I had never seen that site. Beacool Mar 2013 #11

More aware OverDone Mar 2013 #14

I know, I didn't mean that it was your fault. Beacool Mar 2013 #20

That's called turn-over bhikkhu Mar 2013 #16

Totally Agree OverDone Mar 2013 #17

No that's half the numbers - you need to look at hiring too. dmallind Mar 2013 #18

Already Agreed with that OverDone Mar 2013 #22

We're never going to have an economy where people aren't laid off... Drunken Irishman Mar 2013 #33

If it wasn't for Austerity at the fed and state/local government level, we would be in the 6's n2doc Mar 2013 #10

If only the public sector was also adding jobs instead of shedding them. Imagine. nt BootinUp Mar 2013 #12

This is good news!!! Beacool Mar 2013 #15

just imagine if they started rehiring gov workers.. iamthebandfanman Mar 2013 #21

The Repukes can't be too happy about this. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2013 #24

Real jobs or McJobs? brentspeak Mar 2013 #26

"Employment increased in professional and business services, construction, and health care" Tarheel_Dem Mar 2013 #29

Wages Johnny2X2X Mar 2013 #30

Oh... well then why do we need to increase the minimum wage? davidn3600 Mar 2013 #32

Wow, a whole field of strawmen there. phleshdef Mar 2013 #36

That's for existing jobs brentspeak Mar 2013 #35

You understand that this must mean the new jobs averaged higher than existing jobs, right? nt stevenleser Mar 2013 #41

It's meaningless if most of these new jobs are at or near minimum wage davidn3600 Mar 2013 #27

You sound like a low information Republican voter dude. Johnny2X2X Mar 2013 #31

It's the typical DU downers... Drunken Irishman Mar 2013 #34