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April Jobs Report: 211,000 Jobs Added, Unemployment At 4.4 Percent (npr.org)
An anonymous reader shares an NPR report: The U.S. economy added 211,000 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in April, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says. Both the unemployment rate, at 4.4 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, at 7.1 million, saw only incremental changes in April. The new data follow disappointing results from March, when the Labor Department initially said less than 100,000 jobs were created. In April, some of the biggest job gains came in leisure and hospitality, health care and social assistance, financial activities, and mining, the agency says.
Is this real numbers? Can these numbers be trusted?
Is the administration inflating the numbers?
No, no, and yes. (Except that the administration is deflating the unemployment numbers, not inflating them).
http://www.shadowstats.com/ shows, in the graph on the home page, that true unemployment in the USA is currently about 22%. Explanation and details can be found in http://www.shadowstats.com/art...
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
That's the Republican healthcare bill
. Grow up.
The House Republicans violated their own procedures by rushing the current version of their healthcare bill in 24 hours without hearings or being scored by the Congressional Budget Office. This bill is nearly identical to the last bill that got scored at kicking ~24M Americans off their insurance policies (translation: hurry and die). If the Senate do their job, the House bill die a quiet death or be radically rewritten.
I had insurance before and after ObamaCare, My premiums have gone up every years, not down. ObamaCare was supposed to save money, but my deductable has doubled, my out of pocket / copays have gone up, my monthly contribution is doubled.
Anecdotal evidence is best!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.