Jobless Rate Drops: 180,000 Jobs Added

[Sonicmedusa]

Source: Excite- Money and Investing

WASHINGTON (AP) — Employers ramped up hiring in March, driving the unemployment rate down to 4.4 percent, matching a five-year low. It was a surprisingly strong performance in an economy that has otherwise shown signs of sluggishness recently.

The new snapshot, released by the Labor Department on Friday, also showed that employers boosted their payrolls by a strong 180,000 in March, the most since December. Workers' also saw their paychecks get bigger. The fresh figures suggested that companies are not feeling a need to dramatically clamp down on hiring in the face of the slower overall economic activity and the deep housing slump.



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Complete and utter BULLSHIT.

Unless McDonalds opened that many resturants in March, I hope they all burn in hell for lying. Bastards.

[OhioChick]

1. A Lot of Walmarts Opening. n/t

[NMDemDist2]

2. 180K doesn't even match what we need for the new kids entering the

work force

it may be the strongest in months, but it's too little and too late

[Roland99]

12. Actually, it does. Equlibrium is somewhere between 150k-160k jobs/month.

But, this is only like the 2nd or 3rd time in the last year or so we've been above that level.

[peace13]

3. Sounds , looks and smells like bull*$#@ to me! n/t

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

29. Funny. I've been out of work since mid-January, been interviewing

when I'm lucky enough to get a call (40 resumes and 6 interviews out of those sent) and haven't been offered a job yet.

[peace13]

35. Ouch, I am sorry to hear that.

I know that money is tight here in Ohio. I wonder how many people are fooled by these reports. I wish you luck on your next interview. Take care, Kim

[asjr]

4. I am so tired of hearing

corporate crap. Those propagandists must think they are speaking to kindergarteners.

[hobbit709]

5. And these numbers are more accurate

than anything else coming out of the regime?:rofl:

[rfranklin]

6. Even with these numbers they are still in the hole....

from what was happening during the Clinton years. They may be out of negative territory now, but not by much.

[brentspeak]

7. How many of them were McJobs?

[anotherdrew]

25. how many? ALL - that's 'bout all we do anymore, we even have McCEO's nowadays

just a bunch of half educated jokers running the show

[flamin lib]

8. If unemployment is so damn low, how come every job interview

I go to has 20-30 applicants after the second cut? If unemployment is so damn low how can Circuit City fire all their employees and then re-hire them at lower wages?

[bamacrat]

9. I graduate from UA in August, scared about job market.

[Straight Shooter]

10. I'm waiting for the revised figures.

Always -- always -- revised figures from this administration.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. Pay attention next month.

If you follow these numbers closely, they will announce an "adjustment" in the previous month's numbers. Usually, that adjustment is downward, sometimes strikingly so. But that adjusted number always gets lost in the woof and warp.

[19jet54]

13. Oh, I agree...

... that and don't report the permanently un-employed & homeless.

[originalpckelly]

20. I know, by this count you would be lead to believe that somewhere in the neighborhood...

or 290+ million people work, the truth is that only about half of the people in America work.

So it's always possible to fudge the numbers by excluding those folks who can't find a job and aren't looking anymore.

[robcon]

26. That's not true.

Children under 16 are not in the workforce, and full time students are not counted no matter how old they are. Stay-at-home mothers/fathers are not counted. Retired people are not counted.

[19jet54]

32. So in the great depression...

... if 40% of America was not working, who WAS and WAS NOT counted compared to today - I'm sure the standards are now different for political reasons?

[blues90]

14. Right !

I am so sick of these lies sent out to attempt to tell people not to believe their own eyes .

I would for once like to see a real unemployment rate not some trumped up lie .

These people should be arrested and jailed for life for lying , even shot .

[superconnected]

15. did they change the rules again like when they made the part time workers get

reported as having full time jobs so we can no longer compare unemployment rates with clinton years.

I wonder what they're considering full time jobs nows.

Maybe they mean the US increased jobs in China by that much.

[haele]

16. Short-term seasonal jobs, I bet -

Lots of construction and services/retail associated with support are done during the spring/early summer.

Some of those can pay decently, but they don't last. and 180K new jobs would just about account for that seasonal increase. So we're really looking at "new net jobs" to bring people up into the middle class, are we.

Another thought - are they including farm jobs? Planting season and early harvest is going on now.

Haele

[laylah]

17. May I first welcome you

THEN may I point out that the unemployment figures do not reflect those of US that have fallen off! Meaning, no jobs, benefits expired!

Jenn

[lpbk2713]

18. *You want paper or plastic?*

Many of those 180,000 jobs are held by the same people and so they are counted more than once. A lot of people are having to work two or three shitty McJobs and they still can't get their heads above water.

[mountainvue]

19. The thing that pisses me off about this propaganda

is that it totally messed up the bond market, which screws with my paycheck. But hey, if these numbers are real, then amen I guess.

[truthisfreedom]

21. I added two part-timers.

So I'm trying to help, anyway.

[annabanana]

31. Thank you, may you have lots of company.

Sadly, not many people are in the position to be able to improve the picture.

[pinniped]

22. And....workers got a raise!

Which cities or states raised the minimum wage?

[HockeyMom]

23. Two Walmarts opened here in 5 mile radius

Yeah, think of all the "jobs" (part time, no benefits) that created. They ran full page ads for weeks: "Take your pick of locations." Great jobs if you are a student or retiree. Tryimg to earn a living in a high cost of living area? Forget it.

[anotherdrew]

24. wan't it 128k reported earlier Friday? n/t

[Demeter]

27. Numbers Debunked--See My Post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=273234&mesg_id=273234

[Fovea]

28. Bullshit Enron Accounting -- Google Trofim Lysenko

That will tell you how to approach ANY figure that comes from this government.

If these criminals told me the sky was blue, I'd have to stick my head out a window to confirm it!

[annabanana]

30. Why the hell should we believe THESE numbers?

I'm sure some "loyal bushie" has run the figures by KKKarl's office. Can't have any truth muddying up their candy and flower pictures now can we...

[Vinca]

33. I wish there was a way to measure the QUALITY of the jobs,

not just the number. All the well paid manufacturing jobs around here have been replaced by hamburger flippers and big box McJobs. It's hard to get terribly excited over 180,000 jobs if most of them won't feed a family.

[lovuian]

34. Manipulating Numbers and Lying about them

won't stop reality

People know if they are out of work or not?