Census hiring to boost U.S. payrolls in May

[demoleft]

Source: reuters

Although temporary jobs for the decennial census will account for more than two-thirds of the projected 513,000 payrolls gain, a fairly solid foundation is now in place for the wounded labor market's recovery, analysts said.

The increase in payrolls would be the largest monthly gain since September 1983 when employers added just over 1 million jobs. It follows March's 290,000 increase and would mark five straight months of job growth after two years of almost uninterrupted losses.

The Labor Department will release its closely watched employment report on Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET.

Private employers are expected to have created 190,000 jobs last month. While this would be a slowdown from April's 321,000, it would also be the fifth month of gains.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63F2NT20100604

[truthisfreedom]

1. Nice.

Win one for the good guys.

[fasttense]

2. At this rate, we'll be out of the 2nd RepubilCON Great Depression in only 10 years...maybe. n/t

[wackywaggin]

3. Census job lasted 3 weeks!!

They hired so many people to overinflate the numbers that the jobs only lasted for about 3 weeks. If you were on unemployment before being hired you actually lost a lot of money working for the census or if yo urefused the work yo ulost your unemployment. What a joke!!

Heretic Wack

[fasttense]

4. Yeah, I noticed that on the web site. Some of those jobs were for less than 3 months.

The majority of the census jobs around here were for 5 months. Considering you could get unemployment for about 2 years, that seemed like a con to me.

[Abq_Sarah]

13. A con?

It's a temporary job.

Some people would rather work, even in the short term.

[droidamus2]

6. What were you told

When I took my training we were told we were being hired for a maximum of 8 weeks but it was not guaranteed so I figured if I was able to get 4 weeks (been unemployed and ineffectively self-employed for years so any job was better than nothing) I would be doing good. We made it into the fifth week but there are only so many people that need to be counted. The Census Bureaus first job is to get the people counted not to worry about making sure those hired get the full 8 weeks of work (unfortunately for me and many others).

[fasttense]

7. Yeah too bad America has absolutely no way of creating enough jobs to

lower the fake unemployment rate to 3 percent.

[droidamus2]

8. Actually

In my case since I wasn't receiving unemployment or even registered with the unemployment department as seeking work (working with the labor department so that might make a difference) my getting a temporary job would have no effect on the, as you put it, 'fake' unemployment numbers. Since by the way they calculate unemployment I wouldn't be included to begin with. I agree with what I suppose is your point that the calculation for the unemployment numbers is rigged so it always reports less than the true number of unemployed not to mention the underemployed.

[AllentownJake]

9. Actually it does if you are surveyed

The BLS number is a telephone survey of 50,000 people selected for demographic reasons. The number is extrapolated from that.

So you filing a claim for unemployment compensation has nothing to do with the monthly numbers from the BLS.

[sandnsea]

10. I'll be starting my third operation soon

If your job only lasted 3 weeks, it's most likely because you were a lousy employee and not forwarded to the next operation. I've been working since February.

[CatholicEdHead]

11. Some areas were overstaffed and no many to follow up on

others are understaffed with more to follow up on. It is a region by region thing. Country also takes longer than city to count on average.

[sandnsea]

12. No, it's a propaganda bullshit thing

I'm currently finishing the work of someone who was given his first assignment on 5/13. I swear to god in one binder there is ONE form left to do, ONE. Why the hell did he not just finish. Some people just hate this work, are not self-starters, etc etc. We had about double the number of people we really needed too. Or so it looked like. Until you realize half of them quit or don't finish.

And I'm going to pick up the work of someone else who didn't finish in about an hour.

[BR_Parkway]

5. Minus all the jobs currently being lost in the Gulf