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Tom Brosz — 9/4/2004 12:00:23 AM (archived)

March showed 353,000 new payroll jobs, and May showed 324,000. June had 208,000.

The media gave this no positive spin at all. Remember? I do. It meant nothing to the liberals here, either. Fact is, if three million new jobs showed up next month, it wouldn't change the negativaty one bit. They'd just switch to another statistic, or show some other obscure reason why it didn't really mean anything. Why do you think household statistics and the unemployment rate are completely ignored?

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The employment numbers are out, and stronger than predicted - ebnelson - 9/3/2004 1:14:48 PM
- I heard an interesting factoid last night - Larry J - 9/3/2004 7:05:31 PM
- re: Stronger than predicted by whom? When is the "correct" scheduled for? Midnight Sunday? (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 9/3/2004 4:21:58 PM
- Numbers are good, but economists had been hoping for 150,000. - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2004 2:14:52 PM
  - "Disappointing" - Mark Eby - 9/3/2004 10:58:27 PM
    - Remember last spring? - Tom Brosz - 9/4/2004 12:00:23 AM
      - That News Wasn't Buried - Mark Eby - 9/4/2004 2:47:21 AM
        
        re: That News Wasn't Buried - gbaikie - 9/4/2004 6:48:20 AM
  - What's the spin on the first net job loss since Hoover? - Bowser - 9/3/2004 5:56:01 PM
    - re: first net job loss since Hoover. Not quite accurate. - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2004 7:27:43 PM
      - re: first net job loss since Hoover. Not quite accurate. - Chris Vancil - 9/4/2004 8:52:14 AM
      - Wondered what the spin was. I knew I could count on you. And - - - - Bowser - 9/3/2004 9:00:17 PM
      - Don't go messing up their spin and slander with facts, Tom (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/3/2004 7:43:21 PM
  - Dems were hoping for less than 100,000. 144,000 is within margin of error. - ebnelson - 9/3/2004 4:14:03 PM
- 144,000 Jobs Added in August; Unemployment Rate Dips to 5.4% - REB - 9/3/2004 1:40:23 PM

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