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ProSense

(116,464 posts) Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:04 AM Feb 2013

Economy adds 157k jobs in January, revisions way up

Economy adds 157k jobs in January, revisions way up

By Steve Benen

Expectations for job creation were pretty close to perfect according to the new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with the economy adding 157,000 jobs in January. The big news, however, is in the revisions...The unemployment rate was effectively unchanged at 7.9%, and as is often the case, austerity measures undermined the employment landscape -- while America's private sector added 166,000 jobs in December, the public sector lost 9,000 jobs. Indeed, over the last three months, the nation's private sector added 624,000 jobs, while 24,000 government jobs were lost.

It'd be easy for Washington to improve the latter number and lower the unemployment rate, but congressional Republicans won't allow it.

Regardless, today is the day the BLS publishes its revisions for all of 2012, and that's where we see the genuinely good news. Not only were the job totals for November and December revised up considerably -- 127,000 jobs combined -- but for the entire 2012 calendar year, we learned this morning of an additional 335,000 jobs that had not been previously reported.

That means 2.17 million jobs were created just last year, which is the best annual total since 2005, and tops seven of the eight years Bush/Cheney was in office.

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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/02/01/16806287-economy-adds-157k-jobs-in-january-revisions-way-up

Maybe Republicans will put the good of the country before their partisan agenda. I can dream.

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Economy adds 157k jobs in January, revisions way up (Original Post) ProSense Feb 2013 OP

Thanks for posting. Technical note: UE rate INCREASED from 7.8% in December 2012 to coalition_unwilling Feb 2013 #1

K & R malaise Feb 2013 #2

Here's Boehner's statement ProSense Feb 2013 #3

Fugg Boehner n/t malaise Feb 2013 #8

Since Governments Contract Out DallasNE Feb 2013 #13

K&R pinboy3niner Feb 2013 #4

K&R libtodeath Feb 2013 #5

Facts say the darnedest things. SunSeeker Feb 2013 #6

28 straight months of positive job growth Botany Feb 2013 #7

The best since *'s '05 phony housing-bubble boom bhikkhu Feb 2013 #9

The Dow hit 14000. First time since 2007 OKNancy Feb 2013 #10

despite kkkons standing in the way uponit7771 Feb 2013 #11

Government Job Losses DallasNE Feb 2013 #12

But, 170,000 dropped OUT of labor force in January, too. Zax2me Feb 2013 #14

What were the number of births in, say, 1948 compared to 1995? dmallind Feb 2013 #16

Unemployment rate up because... econoclast Feb 2013 #15

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)

1. Thanks for posting. Technical note: UE rate INCREASED from 7.8% in December 2012 to

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:07 AM

Feb 2013

7.9% in January 2013, a fitting end-note for the 2010 "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" Rape-publi-scum Congress. What a bunch of ignorant demagogues and charlatans.

malaise

(269,091 posts)

2. K & R

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:16 AM

Feb 2013

Imagine the numbers if ReTHUGs weren't sabotaging government jobs.

ProSense

(116,464 posts)

3. Here's Boehner's statement

Reply to malaise (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:21 AM

Feb 2013

Boehner Hits Obama Over Expired Jobs Council

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement in response to the January jobs numbers:

“This is the wrong time for President Obama to scrap his jobs council and delay his budget. Month after month we see the same thing: high unemployment and even more debt. More than 12 million Americans are still unemployed, and it’s been that way for far too long. If government spending were what causes economic growth, as the president believes, then the economy today should be booming, and the unemployment rate in America should be plummeting.

“Instead of accepting sluggish job growth as the new normal, we need to work together to grow our economy, address our debt crisis, and expand opportunity for all Americans. In the weeks ahead, Republicans will outline another budget that addresses our spending problem and promotes robust job creation. And with our ‘no budget, no pay’ initiative, we’ve made sure Senate Democrats will do the same or they won’t get a paycheck. Anyone who's paying more at the gas pump and the grocery store under the Obama administration, or who's lost a job or is underemployed, knows the importance of balancing a budget - the Democrats running Washington need to do so as well.”

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/boehner-hits-obama-over-expired-jobs-council

Get this clown a red nose. The report apparently caught him off guard so he ignores it to focus on a useless council, which they've repeatedly attacked, while also ignoring the actual implications of the GDP report.

Krugman: Our Incredible Shrinking Government (and the dip in 4th quarter GDP)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022294128

malaise

(269,091 posts)

8. Fugg Boehner n/t

Reply to ProSense (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 11:01 AM

Feb 2013

DallasNE

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13. Since Governments Contract Out

Reply to ProSense (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 12:50 PM

Feb 2013

A good deal of their work and they are contracting out less of that work it means that the BLS job numbers for public employees actually understate those job losses because contracted workers are not included in the public sector report.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

4. K&R

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Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:32 AM

Feb 2013

libtodeath

(2,888 posts)

5. K&R

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:41 AM

Feb 2013

SunSeeker

(51,578 posts)

6. Facts say the darnedest things.

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:51 AM

Feb 2013

Thanks, Pro.

Botany

(70,524 posts)

7. 28 straight months of positive job growth

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 10:52 AM

Feb 2013

God knows where we would be if the republicans hadn't been trying to trash
the economy for political reasons.

bhikkhu

(10,718 posts)

9. The best since *'s '05 phony housing-bubble boom

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 11:22 AM

Feb 2013

you might say.

The best real growth in a very long time.

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)

10. The Dow hit 14000. First time since 2007

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 11:41 AM

Feb 2013

It may not close above 14000, but investors are happy.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

11. despite kkkons standing in the way

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 11:45 AM

Feb 2013

DallasNE

(7,403 posts)

12. Government Job Losses

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 12:33 PM

Feb 2013

BLS does not break out at what level job are added/lost for government jobs. A recent report showed that Obama has been adding government workers at the slowest pace since Eisenhower. What that means is that more than 100% of these job losses in the public sector are at the State and local level (teachers, first responders, etc.). We are, in other words, still suffering as a nation for the 2010 election. Just look at the States Obama carried in 2012 that have Republican Governors (from memory). Nevada, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maine, New Jersey, Virginia and Florida. (Not sure on Rhode Island). That is roughly half the States that Obama won. That is where the work needs to be done in 2014 (2013 in Virginia).

Zax2me

(2,515 posts)

14. But, 170,000 dropped OUT of labor force in January, too.

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 01:03 PM

Feb 2013

This article and graph omits this huge detail.
Why?

dmallind

(10,437 posts)

16. What were the number of births in, say, 1948 compared to 1995?

Reply to Zax2me (Reply #14)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 01:17 PM

Feb 2013

Do you think those numbers might be relevant?

econoclast

(543 posts)

15. Unemployment rate up because...

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2013, 01:03 PM

Feb 2013

The OTHER employment report, called the Household Survey .... The report the inemployment rate us calculated from .... Shows JOB LOSSES of 115,000. Which is why the unemployment rate went up.

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