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BumRushDaShow

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3. Good morning and you forgot

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 10, 2020, 10:26 AM

Jan 2020

the Census takers!!!11!!!!1111

(I actually did see a notice from an adjoining county to Philly mentioning something like 5000 temp job openings for that county to work on the Census)

And one wonders if anyone Murdoch-ey (including the WSJ) would acknowledge that 7 of those "record 10 years" happened under Obama.

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Economy adds 145,000 jobs in December as unemployment rate remains at 3.5 percent [View all] BumRushDaShow Jan 2020 OP

The employers provided the red suits and elf hats. tavernier Jan 2020 #1

You're doing this to make Trump look good. They're all temporary. They're all for sales clerks. They mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2020 #2

Good morning and you forgot BumRushDaShow Jan 2020 #3

"They're all in the defense industries" I had not heard that one before. I learn something new progree Jan 2020 #4

On the seasonal thing - actually December is a jobs loss month progree Jan 2020 #6

ADP revised November's number. mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2020 #7

Actually we are a nation of Sales Clerks. It is the job most Americans have Farmer-Rick Jan 2020 #9

The numbers are what the numbers are. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2020 #10

And some Trumpian growth was borrowing from the future to pay for tax cuts for wealthy progree Jan 2020 #12

Another poster mentioned net income growth is slowing. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2020 #17

Links to earlier reports: mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2020 #5

131,000 more jobs than reported a month ago progree Jan 2020 #8

Inflation-adjusted average hourly earnings of production and non-supervisory workers progree Jan 2020 #11

..But the picture isn't all rosy. Economists say wages are not growing as fast as they should be, riversedge Jan 2020 #13

How fast do they say wages should be growing? I've never heard a figure progree Jan 2020 #16

wages up just 2.9%, first time below 3% since 7/18. Weakest year for payroll growth since 2011 riversedge Jan 2020 #14

Characterizing payroll growth as "weak" is bad journalism mathematic Jan 2020 #19

#11, #16 has some of the hourly earnings series progree Jan 2020 #20

All Trump's MAGAt cheerleaders OliverQ Jan 2020 #15

From the source, the BLS report: mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2020 #18

Those are terrible numbers for jobs. Should be higher rockfordfile Jan 2020 #21

Yeah, I know someone with 3 of them DiverDave Jan 2020 #22