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Greg — 2/8/2004 10:55:35 AM (archived)

You could get a job in the administration with lines like that. It's not high unemplyment it's just there aren't as many jobs as people. Lots and lots of jobs, lots created, just all those extra people couldn't all get one.

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Paul Krugan's nightmare: Jobless rate down to 5.6%, new jobs up 100,000 - ebnelson - 2/6/2004 2:05:08 PM
- Good news, for sure, but not good enough. Too many have left the workforce. Too many other jobs are menial, low income. Very few good paying (> 4 * min wage) jobs were created. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 2/8/2004 1:05:37 AM
  - The economy is clearly turning, and it is turning pretty fast - ebnelson - 2/8/2004 4:44:17 PM
  - Where are you getting those stats? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/8/2004 3:32:51 AM
    - Here - David F Mayer - 2/8/2004 9:10:53 PM
      - Thanks! - Tom Brosz - 2/8/2004 11:16:53 PM
- Media scrambling to turn this into bad news... - Tom Brosz - 2/6/2004 4:28:28 PM
  - 'A New Kind of Workforce' Emerges - Greg - 2/7/2004 2:06:39 AM
  - augmented unemployment - Greg - 2/7/2004 1:57:45 AM
    - re: "augmented unemployment?" Good grief. - Tom Brosz - 2/7/2004 4:08:05 AM
      - re: "augmented unemployment?" Good grief. - Greg - 2/7/2004 5:09:15 AM
        
        re: augmented unemployment - Tom Brosz - 2/7/2004 5:56:13 AM
        
        Like your household survey for example? - Greg - 2/7/2004 6:27:41 AM
        
        Job "contraction." - Tom Brosz - 2/7/2004 7:31:54 AM
        
        a true Orwellian post - Greg - 2/8/2004 10:55:35 AM

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