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Economic Activism and Progressive Living

Smackdown2019

(1,183 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2019, 05:16 PM Jan 2019

Job numbers

Are they false numbers derived from a furlough department?

We are going to a banana REPUBLIC each day with this MORON in the white house!

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Job numbers (Original Post) Smackdown2019 Jan 2019 OP

They're likely inflated due to the massive amount of temp workers hired for the holiday season. bearsfootball516 Jan 2019 #1

Thanks for reminding me of the influence of the holidays on the numbers. littlemissmartypants Jan 2019 #2

bearsfootball516

(6,372 posts)

1. They're likely inflated due to the massive amount of temp workers hired for the holiday season.

Reply to Smackdown2019 (Original post)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 05:16 PM

Jan 2019

The numbers aren't incorrect, but they're misleading. They'll be back to normal next month.

littlemissmartypants

(22,518 posts)

2. Thanks for reminding me of the influence of the holidays on the numbers.

Reply to bearsfootball516 (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 07:23 PM

Jan 2019

I still can't help but think that there's a fair amount of fuzzy math potentially happening with the current state of affairs. Who's really crunching the numbers? Are they just throwing things at the white board and calculating them where they fall? (J/K) I don't trust anything that comes from our government anymore. Congratulations on the erosion of trust, Republican party. It sucks having a liar, idiot in the people's house.

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